Rumbling reported in the early morning of Wednesday, Oct. 23, is still baffling officials, who, a day later, haven’t found the cause.
Residents called in to report a loud boom followed by shaking all the way from New Jersey’s southern tip to as far north as Hackettstown, according to a USGS map of the event.
Calls to regional military bases turned up nothing.
A spokespersons for Joint Base Mcguire-Dix-Lakehurst said they didn’t have any aircraft capable of breaking the sound barrier, and had no visiting aircraft that would be responsible for the phenomena either.
At the Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland, a spokesperson said they had no aircraft near southern New Jersey at the time.
A spokesperson for the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division in Lakehurst, New Jersey, also said it wasn’t from any of their aircraft.
The Federal Aviation Administration said they didn’t have any aircraft capable of breaking the sound barrier and had no information on military activities in the area.
A spokesman for the New Jersey State police said he had heard about it, but didn’t know the source and said that the agency was not in charge of investigating it.