Just after 3pm today, a very loud ‘sonic boom’ was both and heard and felt by households in the county.
Social media sites are full of people enquiring and speculating what this noise was. Broadwindsor, Mosterton, South Perrot, Eggardon, Salway Ash, Crewkerne, Yeovil, Chard, Exeter, Weymouth & Portland.
ITV are reporting it as a meteorite which was also spotted in Jersey – see their report HERE.
Earlier . . . It has made BBC News – but no answer yet.
In 2014 – “A controlled explosion was carried out by the Royal Navy EOD this afternoon on the beach between Lyme Regis and Charmouth after a member of the public reported finding a suspicious looking item on the beach. The item was found to be a phosphorus flare.”
Typhoon aircraft were sighted earlier in the week.
A sonic boom occurs when an object – usually a jet – travels faster than the speed of sound and breaks the sound barrier.
The cause will be here once officially confirmed.
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