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Originally Posted by stevej37
Our childhood home was mid-Michigan and I was told most of the sonic booms were out of Selfridge Air National Guard Base near Detroit.
Someone here might know if that is correct.
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Yes. That is correct.
One of the major factors in banning booms was the outrage expressed by metro Detroit when windows got shattered. Even after the ban, the complaints were focused on low-flying sub-sonic jets scaring the carp out of people in the thumb.
One old lady nearly broke her arm when one of ‘em passed over and she reflexively hit the deck while working in her garden. They flew LOW over the vast farmlands of the Saginaw valley. That old lady was my mom.