Mysterious Loud Boom Heard Across Much Of Missouri But It Wasn’t A Warplane

A loud boom was heard in a large part of Missouri on Wednesday, but it wasn’t noise from a warplane’s sonic boom.

In a Facebook post, the Johnson County Emergency Management asked residents if they heard “a large boom.”

Some home security systems reportedly recorded the loud noise in videos.

A commenter on the JCEM’s post said there was a “faint droning from the south and then a violent boom that shook my windows and walls.”

The commenter added that he checked outside to see if something hit the roof of his house “but nothing was there.”

There have been concerns about whether the noise was triggered by an earthquake.

However, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) did not confirm any earthquakes in the Missouri area over the past week.

A quake was reported on Wednesday at Benton County, around 0.5 miles east of Warsaw. The USGS is yet to confirm the earthquake and its status.

Due to questions as to whether the boom was made by a sonic boom from an aircraft at the Whiteman Air Force Base, a spokesman for the base told McClatchy News that the noise did not come from any of their jets.

Furthermore, Boeing told the outlet that the boom was from an “F-15 aircraft operating out of St. Louis Lambert Airport.”

A spokesperson for the U.S. aircraft maker said the aircraft, which was under contract with the U.S. Air Force, was conducting a test flight for system performance verification.

This is not the first time a loud sound was linked to a Boeing jet.

In January, residents of Kirksville said they heard a large boom that they believed could have been either a sonic boom, an earthquake, or an ice quake.

A Boeing spokesperson said in a statement to ABC affiliate KTVO that the sonic boom “was likely the result of a normal customer acceptance flight of an F-15 aircraft” being operated by a U.S. government air crew.

In 2019, NBC affiliate KOMU-TV reported that Boeing was testing a military jet around the same time a massive boom was heard across mid-Missouri.

At that time, Boeing said in a statement that the military aircraft testing was performed for a customer and was “required by contract.”

Residents told the outlet that their windows were rattled by the loud boom that was heard across counties Boone, Mexico, and Fulton.