In the Pacific Northwest Today, a "Sonic Boom"?

[Vennie]

This happened today at 2:30 pacific time, around Ft. Lewis, and McChord Airforce Base here in Washington State. This is my Facebook friend’s post immediately after. She lives on the military base, Ft. Lewis, approximately 5 miles from me. I have lived in this area for 15 years, off and on, and myself and no one we know have ever heard a “sonic boom” that could be heard all the way in California, 10 hours away, or shook a 20 mile radius like an earthquake. (last names were removed from the Facebook copy) - hopefully this will post halfway decent. If you read the article, it said that Obama is coming, but from the video link, and what I have seen, President Obama was here very quietly today. Well, not so quietly anymore...

Jennifer HOLY CRAP I swear they just dropped a bomb next to our house! The shade blew into the house! Felt like 2 mini earth quakes! THAT WAS LOUD!!!! WTH are they doing?!?!?!?

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Jennifer ‎2 big loud booms back to back! not just one

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Marrie ‎2 times here too, and Josh felt it in Auburn!

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Jennifer window shades. i need to proof read before i hit 'comment' lol

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Tia Yeah here too...the baby slept right through it

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Jennifer WOW! Auburn? (50 miles away from Ft. Lewis)

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Jessica another friend of mine heard it in University place. I heard it in lakewood, hubs heard it in mcchord. what was it?!?!

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Jennifer Wow Tia! Tass was in the shower and thought the boys banged on the wall... I was like... WHAT? I don't think the kids can hit that hard lol

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Sarah Yea it loud like bad shook the whole... Something had to of blown up like for real!

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Tia ok now i am wondering what it was...i just thought it came from the range sometimes i hear cannons over here

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Maria ok what was that?? My window shades blew in to in Dupont

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Sarah yea I hear feild artilerly all the time but that wasn't them if it was something happened...

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Jennifer they are doing construction on north fort and it sounded that close to me so maybe they are excavating or something?

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Angie What the heck was it?

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Tia If something happened the horns would be going off...I am sure everything is fine

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Marrie I saw my walls go in and out with the force of it, twice.

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Sarah it sounded that close to us too lol and were on Mcchord...

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Jennifer Unless they overshot the impact area...

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Sarah yea i felt that pics fell off my wall...

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Jessica That wasn't construction. EVERYONE within driving distance heard this. Does anyone know yet? I am FREAKING out!

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Maria Hubby felt it in Olympia he thought it was an earthquake

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'Christine Please do share when you find out what it was.

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Sarah well if something blew up it should be on the news tonight...

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Jennifer http://www.kirotv.com/news/24664589/detail.html
nobody knows yet...

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Bridget jay said they have a bombing range there and probably just dropped one of those superbombs.....may have missed the mark a bit lol.

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Maria just read that it was sonic boom from military artilary thats all they are saying

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Sarah dumbasses LOL

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Jessica It's not a sonic boom. Sonic booms aren't heard from such a distance (auburn, olympia, etc.)

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Maria FAA confirms loud booms heard across Puget Sound area were sonic booms from F-15s flying in the area. Agency says "Presidential air space" was breached .........haha ya think

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Jennifer http://www.king5.com/
sonic booms from military aircraft

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Sarah ummm yea sonic booms can be heard that far...

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Bridget presidential air space? is he going there? lol

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Alexandria Lol wow mustve been loud. the things i miss while im in oregon :(

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Jennifer oh ya sonic booms can be felt for a LOOOOOOONG distance

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Bridget felt....but not heard....weird weird

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Sarah you can hear it too...

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Dannette Yea, that was CRAZY load and freaked me out.. Em slept right through it.

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Jennifer ‎2 f-15's scrambled to protect the president flying over the area and created 2 sonic booms. man that was LOUD!

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Bridget

an aircraft flying supersonic at 30,000 feet will create a lateral boom spread of about 30 miles

so to be heard from auburn to olympia, over 40 miles in distance, the plane would have had to be at 40,000 ft or higher (approximately)

still am

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Jessica I just read the same thing Bridget. Funny. I was just about to post the exact same thing you posted. Well, regardless of how far or how loud it was, Or how widespread it was heard, I am wired right now. I was shaking SO bad after it happened. Ugh.

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Jennifer Skyler (my worry wart) was in tears. His little heart was beating a mile a minute. Oly wanted to know who got blown up and if he could go see it. LOL! I'm gonna have to keep an eye on that one... goodness.

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Jessica A friend of mine in northern Cali heard the booms. 2 of them, just at the same time we all did. Your friend in Oregon didn't hear it? Jenn did any of ur family hear it in oregon?

By the time the news put it out to the public at 5pm, it looked like this:

Later, on the news, this is the story that posted for the public:

http://www.kirotv.com/news/24664589/detail.html

Updated: 5:27 pm PDT August 17, 2010

SEATTLE -- Military fighter jets triggered sonic booms after a small plane violated airspace restrictions in place for President Obama's visit to Seattle, the FAA tells KIRO 7 Eyewitness News.

The Secret Service interviewed the pilot believed responsible for the breach after he landed the float plane at Kenmore Air Harbor, at the north end of Lake Washington.

Family members of the pilot, Charles Lee Daily told KIRO 7 Eyewitness News that he and a woman had just returned home from a trip to Lake Chelan and were unaware of the flight restrictions for the President's visit.

The passenger in the Cessna 180 float plane, Laura Joseph, of Normandy Park told the Associated Press she saw an F-15 fighter jet pass their plane once but did not realize what was going on until she and Daily got out of the plane and were told the Secret Service wanted to talk with them.

The sonic booms from the F-15 military jets scrambled after the airspace violation shook a wide area of Western Washington, rattling windows and nerves from Chehalis to Seattle.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command said the jets were scrambled from Portland after a report that an aircraft violated the restricted airspace. The Air National Guard stationed in Portland is the primary air defense force in the Pacific Northwest.

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Spokesman John Cornelio told The Associated Press the aircraft left the restricted area before the Air National Guard jets arrived, and there was no intercept.

The Secret Service told CBS News the small private seaplane was eight miles away from Air Force One and that it appears to have flown into the restricted space by mistake.

Emergency agencies across the region got calls from numerous people who heard and felt a double boom about 1:50 p.m.

The 911 system was down in some areas of Pierce County for about an hour after the booms because of a flood of calls, said Ed Troyer of the Sheriff's Office.

"Many house and car alarms have been set off that we will not be able to respond to," Troyer wrote in an email.

Viewers from Tacoma, Des Moines and Alki, among other places, told KIRO 7 Eyewitness News they felt the booms.

Here at KIRO 7, two sets of rumbles shook the building at Third Avenue and Broad Street in Belltown.

Outside the Westin hotel in downtown Seattle, where the president was appearing, many people felt the booms, said KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reporter Essex Porter.

"Though some too excited to notice. I heard/felt 1 boom then siren blast then bigger boom," Porter wrote in a tweet.

"From Obama event at Westin, mystery boom felt like it came from Westlake Center a few blocks south. Was surprised to see no smoke after boom," he wrote.

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[Vennie]

yes... President Obama is in this area today. no one knew he was coming in yesterday. a meeting perhaps? i'm thinking, what do I know that would need to have the force of a sonic boom to power it? nothing I've ever known on this earth. I've lived in this area, off and on for 15 years, and none of us ever have heard what was heard the day before yesterday. Hmmmm - We should send Obama a lot of love right now... this is my sense..

there are many reasons, i believe that the light family comes to this area - one is temperature, it's quite cool - often rainy and cloudy, and the sun is not so invasive. again, these are my feelings... nothing i know to be "fact"... the lightworkers gathering in this area are astronomical. My nephew saw an orb in the sky on the way home from work tonight. it got blocked by the trees, but he nonchalantly said, "yeah, they're here". everyone feels the same - so many conversations, people casually saying, "they're finally meeting."

they're here meeting with the President, this is my feeling, irregardless of what the news says... this is good... love love love...