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Old 5th May 2016, 13:42
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It was all due to a UFO coming out of the North Sea


I read it on the internet, it must be true....
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Old 5th May 2016, 14:06
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If indeed a D notice was issued regarding this event, that would be interesting.
Afaik, they are not used casually.
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Old 5th May 2016, 16:58
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"Is there much documented history about the negative effects of sonic booms?"

The USAF boomed Oklahoma City eight times a day for six months in 1964 to test that. Over a hundred windows were broken, and public displeasure contributed to the cancellation of the SST program.
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Etudiant,

It is the mad cap world of an internet hoaxer known as Sorcha Faal. He/She simply picks a news story and spins it.

From the Yorkshire Post

No local media organisations were issued with any such notice.
SONIC BOOM: Conspiracy website says drama was start of WW3 as UFO shot down after rising from sea - Yorkshire Post

These newspapers denied (in virtually identical articles[42][43]) that the British government had issued a Defense Advisory Notice prohibiting their publishing the facts of this event that Faal had alleged
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorcha_Faal_reports
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Old 5th May 2016, 17:26
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I wondered if the Airforce pilots enjoyed their trip.?
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Old 5th May 2016, 20:08
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Every time there is a thunderstorm there are sonic booms from the lightning strikes. Anyone would think no one had ever heard a sonic boom before the way people carry on. I suppose it is unexpected coming from a cloudless sky, but so do lightning strikes sometimes.
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Old 5th May 2016, 20:22
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Is there much documented history about the negative effects of sonic booms?
According to this, the overpressure of supersonic aircraft past and present is nowhere near enough to cause human injury, and damage to structures is rare, give or take the odd shattered window.

NASA - NASA Dryden Fact Sheet - Sonic Booms
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Old 5th May 2016, 20:57
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Some Pruners may also find this of interest....

Stumbled across the aircraft preserved in Florida not far from the Kennedy Space Centre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaped..._Demonstration
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Old 6th May 2016, 12:31
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Is there much documented history about the negative effects of sonic booms?
Well there's this...

Has to me at least an "oops!", if not an "oh lummy!".
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Old 8th May 2016, 21:07
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Jets did indeed get close enough to VID the jet, and escorted it safely into Newcastle, tanker was launched as per SOP, to support FJ's and had a thoroughly miserable time as there was no tea onboard. Apparently.
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