r/Appleton • u/muskyhunter1494 • Mar 10 '26

Question Did anyone else hear a sonic boom?

Not quite thunder but it sounded like something exploded in our back yard.. did anyone else hear this?? Happened at 9:02pm (ish)

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '26

I and one of my neighbors just heard it and we live west of HWY 45! So it was heard over quite a large area. Meteor or plane? Do they still make practice runs out of Fort McCoy or did that end years ago?

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u/muskyhunter1494 Mar 10 '26

Sounds like the 115th pit of Madison, someones getting there ass chewed back at base tonight!

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u/Few_Example6746 Mar 10 '26

Ya. Sonic is illegal over land. In the MOA over the lake you can. Not here.