A loud, explosion-like noise that was heard across metropolitan Washington on Sunday was caused by a sonic boom from a Department of Defense-authorized flight, officials confirmed.
“The loud boom that was heard across” the Washington area was “caused by an authorized DOD flight,” said the Annapolis Office of Emergency Management in Annapolis, Maryland, on Twitter. “This flight caused a sonic boom. That is all the information available at this time.”
The Epoch Times has contacted the Pentagon for comment on Sunday.
Another local agency, the District of Columbia Homeland Security and Emergency Management, wrote that it is aware of reports from locals across the Capitol region of a “loud ‘boom’ this afternoon.” It declared that “there is no threat at this time,” but provided no other details….