At some point around 5:20 PM yesterday (Friday).....I heard this 'explosion'. I live in a village on the northern outskirts of Wiesbaden, and to me....it was like a natural gas explosion or a car-bomb.
Around an hour later....the authorities came on (via public TV) and said this was a sonic boom (something you really don't hear much in Germany at all).
As a kid in rural Alabama, you'd hear sonic booms an average of two or three times a week (being almost normal). In Germany? In the last dozen years....I've heard maybe one, and this is the second.
What triggered the sonic boom?
Well...some passenger aircraft had lost contact with radar for a while (reason never explained). Two Bavarian-based Euro-fighters were sent to find the aircraft, and went to top speed....triggering the sonic boom.
What the reporters say is that within a 60 to 80 km range....you are likely to hear the 'boom'.
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