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PostPosted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 10:32 am    Post subject: Loud explosion? Reply with quote
Anyone else hear that very loud explosion about half an hour ago? Ch. 6 is saying no one seems to know what caused it. Any news on it?
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 10:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I heard it too.  I was over by 99th and Harrison.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 10:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Possible Sonic Boom Heard In Omaha

KMTV wrote:
Omaha Public Power District says they have had no transformers explode and no power outages.  Douglas County dispatch says they have no reports of fires or explosion.  The Sarpy County Sheriff's Office believes it may have been a sonic boom from an airplane.



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 11:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I heard it at 114th and Dodge, it sounded like thunder.



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 12:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Officials tracking source of boom heard in Omaha

Omaha World Herald wrote:
Douglas County dispatchers received calls around 11 a.m. from several areas of the city. Neither the Omaha Public Power District nor the Metropolitan Utilities District reported any difficulties.



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 1:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
The Big Bang
Airborne acoustic event investigated

WOWT wrote:
The Federal Aviation Administration does confirm to Channel 6 News that an F-16 from Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana was in this area at the time.



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 1:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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F-16 from Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana


Another Tiger fan making their presence known at the CWS. Very Happy


A colleague and I looked at each other puzzled from across the hall when we heard an unusual bang sound from the roof at about this same time.  We're down in Papillion.



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 3:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Heard it at 72nd and Pacific at a minute or two after 11:00.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 3:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
News sources say it was heard in Fremont and in Talbot, IA.



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 2:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I live over on 96th and Q and I heard it too.

I was wondering what the heck that was... Laughing
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 11:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
http://journalstar.com/articles/2007/06/21/news/nebraska/doc467a7f95b1105113504661.txt
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 9:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I heard it at the office at 90th and Maple.  I assumed it was just terrorist or something.  In retrospect it was a bad |expletive| boom.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 9:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Being in east Omaha I just thought it was gunshots like usual. Didn't even notice it.



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 10:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
You could hear it loud and clear in the 132nd and West Center area..

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 5:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Loud Jet Passing Again

heard another one!!  At about 6:30pm, we were watching tv, and heard a jet/some jets flying, which sounded like an airplane getting ready to take off at Eppley until it finally made it overhead and the stuff on my walls rattled and heard a crack, thinking something was going to hit my house.  Ran outside, and my neighbors were looking up pointing towards the skyline and it was long gone.  Heard it for about 10 seconds after it had passed...anyone else hear this??



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 7:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I heard it too, It sounded like two planes in a row right after each other... I went on the deck to see if I could see something, I did not see anything. I actually thought it was on TV lol
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 6:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
i still can't find anything-- news must not care too much, so i shouldn't either Razz



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 7:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Good I'm not crazy. I heard it too.



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 3:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
My neighbor said it was a fighter of some sort; he was outside when he heard the approach, and he said (obviously) that it was going at a good clip.  Couldn't tell if it was an f-16 or not, though.



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 4:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Found the source:




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PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 4:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I thought it was this:




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PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 4:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Mild-mannered sonic flatulator by night...

...heaping pile of flop sweat by later at night.



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