Please don't insult Krispy Kreme. Call him Dunkin' Dumbnuts.

When I was in boot camp in San Diego in 1972, there were frequent booms that seemed to occur out at sea. Everybody assumed the military was doing something with aircraft, missiles, explosives, etc. but they said, "It's not us. We're as mystified as you are." Riiiiight.

I was in basic training when Wojciecz Jaruzelski declared martial law in Poland to shut down Lech Walesa and his Solidarity movement. Right after he did it, my senior drill sergeant came to the class we were attending and told us all that we were going to be going to war in one week to defend the Polish people. Then he opened the floor for questions and me, sometimes not being all that cautious, stood up and asked why we'd be going to war to defend a Soviet ally. (I got sentenced to "ten million pushups, payable in full before graduation day" for fucking up his scare tactics. I think I still owe him three or four.)

In 1972 and out at sea? Probably F-4 Phantom training.

UPDATE, 3:35 p.m.: A public affairs official at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst said no aircraft at the base was capable of making the seeming sonic booms felt throughout New Jersey Thursday, and officials were still investigating.
Kryn Westhoven, spokesperson for the New Jersey Department of Military Veterans Affairs, said he’s spoken to all military units in New Jersey, and none of are reporting any activity that could have caused the booms.


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ALL the Marine air action was based up at El Toro back then, and those damn Marine air jockeys loved to shoot down south for their high jinx and hot dogging.

I was stationed at El Toro in '72, although I was temporarily deployed elsewhere for much of the year and into '73. Stayed there until my discharge in '77.



Oh, and as I recall, there was an area of restricted airspace off the coast for them to do their 'hot dogging,' though I am pretty sure they called it training.

@ACPressSkeldon
NORAD says it's not a sonic boom.

This phenomena has been noted for well over a century but nobody knows what causes it.

People are just trying to get away from Nikki Haley as fast as possible.

That would have happened a long time ago.

It wasn't clear there wasn't an accident until the second crash. But that's a different story.

It's time the military confirms it.

but I'd expect that more on the west coast than the east. The most likely explanation is a USAF pilots hotdogging too close to shore.

There used to be signs around Pensacola that said that jet noise is the sound of freedom.

Fighter jets were flying tests nearby.

It startled me so much I checked the site for local responses to emergencies to see if something had blown up. Nothing there and I kind of forgot about it until reading a couple of posts here.

Of course we live next to Eglin Air Force base.

We are so used to them it's sort of shocking that in other places a series of sonic booms would make the news.

An F-35C, and an F-18 from Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland were conducting supersonic testing off the coast Thursday afternoon, according to a Navy spokeswoman.

It was near certainly a hypersonic jet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypersonic_flight

But "the Navy confirmed it" is not the whole picture. They don't confirm the Aurora jet exists, and didn't confirm anything hypersonic, which it absolutely had to be.

Is the F-35C hypersonic or supersonic?

We were told by the grown-ups they were sonic booms.

Occasionally, too, airplanes traveling to Logan would fly low and cover the sky from one apartment building across the courtyard to the next building. That was creepy cool.

sorry .