" That's a negative ghost rider, the pattern is full. "

" I saw in another story that planes are not allowed to fly fast enough to create sonic booms over most parts of the US. Does anybody know if that is realatively new? I remember when I was a kid growing up in the 70's in the sandhills we heard them all the time? Or was that a remote enough area the USAF could fly fast enough to create them there? Anybody know? "

" Ya ya, the pilot was not paying attention to his air speed, plain and simple. I didn't think it was that hard to notice something that's right in front of your face. "

" This did used to happen all the time when we were kids. Now days the media has everyone so freaked out about terrorism that we freak at the slightest loud noise! "

" I can't even believe this is news. What we needs is some stupidity control around here. Far more imporatant things to worry about than a sonic boom from a plane. Even if it were something else, what is there to report unless you are next to whatever blew. If you hear a loud boom and you don't see smoke, don't waste emergency dispatch time with your stupid questions. What are you gonna say, I live at such and such and the sound was to the east. Can you check it out. All this needs is a quote from one of those idiots that called. "Yeah I was in mugh yard, wurkin on mugh truck. I hurd this boom and called the poleese to let em know i hurd it. I was scurred it was an explodion and it might get mugh kids." "

" I thought supersonic flight wasn't permitted over the mainland... "

" Wow!The last sonic boom I ever heard was here in Lincoln around '70 or so.If I remember correctly they used to happen about once a month in the summer time. "

" The military does not permit Supersonic flight over the mainland. (at least during training and exercises) Far as I know, it's permitted over waters of the coasts, but not on land. The pilot of the jet will hear about it from the CO..believe me. Do you read the news often seriously...why is this article a problem and not the others. Can news only contain bad things? If you heard a jet going super and did not know what it was, would you be curious enough to find out? Don't be so quick to judge...far as I am concerned...you're waisting precious network bandwidth by your comments. "

" Ahhh...brought back the good ol' days. "

" I remember the years of hearing the sonic booms too. I also recall one of the reasons it was no longer allowed was due to farmers complaining about the booms affects on livestock. My grandfather had a dairy farm and those sonic booms were enough to scare those cows to death. "

" Yeah, report the suspicious looking ice cream man but chalk the sounds of huge explosions to sonic booms in an offhand manner. So the government went through all the expense and that effort educating the public about duct tape and plastic wrap, funding anti-terrorism measures, and posting alert levels so that we could laugh these phone calls off as ignorant morons. How soon we forget, how quickly we will be unprepared again. "

" You know those goats that hear a loud noise and they freeze and fall over? Americans are becoming a lot like them. That's why pilots can't be allowed to produce loud, sudden noises anymore. "

" I'm intrigued at what this sounds like. Can someone describe it please? Like fireworks? A low thunderous boom? A loud pop that echoes? Just curious. "

" I'm startled that his is even newsworthy. "

" Remember the unexplained loud boon heard here in Lincoln and in about 6 other states approx. 7-8 years ago. Busted windows in Malcolm? There was never an explaination for that and Offut reported no planes. "

" Sonic booms sound like a quick really loud thunder boom, or an explosion. Once you have heard one you won't mistake it for anything else. They were common place in Western Nebraska in the 60's and early 70's. They have since been "outlawed". "