http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/3500792/
'Booms' reported in Clayton, Wendell
Posted: Sep. 7 6:15 p.m.
Updated: Sep. 7 11:57 p.m.
Emergency officials said residents in Johnston and surrounding counties
reported hearing loud booms that shook their houses Sunday evening.
Most of the reports came in from Clayton and Wendell, starting around 5:45 p.m.
WRAL viewers in Selma and Middlesex also reported similar experiences.
"I was inside on the computer, and all of a sudden, I just heard this big, old
boom," Clint Banks, of Clayton, said. "This one lady said that her house shook
when it happened. But I heard a lot of it, and it lasted, I'd say, about 15
seconds."
"My mom thought something to us happened, because she was downstairs, but it
was just a loud boom," Zulit Callejas, of Clayton, said.
WRAL viewers talk about their experiences of the booming noises.
Emergency crews searched the area for the source of the noise but could not
identify what the noise was, said Capt. Buck Pipkin, with the Johnston County
Sheriff's Office.
Some residents have speculated that the noise might have been the result of a
sonic boom, a term that is commonly used to refer to the shocks caused by the
supersonic flight of a military aircraft.
Pipkin said the sheriff's office has called surrounding air bases and airports,
and none reported a missing plane.
Officials at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Wayne County said planes are not
allowed to produce a sonic boom. All of the base's F-15s completed landing at
4:15 p.m., officials said.
The National Weather Service officials said they did not know of any events –
including an earthquake – that would have caused the noise.
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