[MandoMan]

Originally Posted by cb1972

About 10 minutes ago heard a rumble , house vibrated in the area of St. James near Buena Vista , and St. Charles gate. Anyone else feel this.

Yes. It shook the window next to where I was sitting, and within a couple seconds a siren started, then a minute later there were more sirens, so I thought it was an explosion of some sort, like a gas tank. But a sonic boom would make sense.

[prendymom]

Originally Posted by retiredguy123

I heard it near Pine Ridge, but no vibration.

I heard it in Tamarind Grove.

[DPWM21]

Originally Posted by cb1972

About 10 minutes ago heard a rumble , house vibrated in the area of St. James near Buena Vista , and St. Charles gate. Anyone else feel this.

Sonic boom felt across Central Florida as Ax-3 returned to Earth.

[Nana2Teddy]

This happened in SoCal back in the days when the space shuttle was flying. Two sonic booms in quick succession as it entered earth’s atmosphere. Sometimes we were aware it was coming, sometimes not, but we always knew what it was when it happened. Life in the space age.

[txfan]

Just a bit more detail...

The SpaceX Crew Dragon was returning from the International Space Station.

Its entry groundtrack took it from SW to NE across Mexico and Florida, with splashdown off the coast of Daytona.

The spacecraft was returning the AX-3 private astronaut crew following a two-week mission.

This ascending entry created the opportunity for sonic booms over our area as it slowed below the speed of sound heading toward the desired splashdown zone.

NASA and Axiom Space have an agreement to fly commercial (private) astronaut missions to and from the Station about once a year when it doesn't interfere with ongoing 24/7 operations.

NASA requires the Commander of the four-person mission to be a former flown NASA astronaut. The other seats can be sold to crew members approved by the partnership.

Axiom is working on designs for a commercial space station that eventually could among several that NASA uses for scientific research after the ISS is retired and deorbited safely over the Pacific at the end of its useful lifetime.

[GoneFishing]

Originally Posted by cb1972

About 10 minutes ago heard a rumble , house vibrated in the area of St. James near Buena Vista , and St. Charles gate. Anyone else feel this.

It was a sonic boom caused when the space capsule returned back to earth from the ISS. Perfect splashdown about 14 miles out in the Atlantic.

[ron32162]

Duval here and I heard it also sounded like a sonic boom

[Deden]

Originally Posted by cb1972

About 10 minutes ago heard a rumble , house vibrated in the area of St. James near Buena Vista , and St. Charles gate. Anyone else feel this.

They are Military practice bombing in the Ocala Forest.

[clossonjunk]

Originally Posted by MandoMan

Yes. It shook the window next to where I was sitting, and within a couple seconds a siren started, then a minute later there were more sirens, so I thought it was an explosion of some sort, like a gas tank. But a sonic boom would make sense.

It definitely was the sonic boom from the return of the spacecraft. We had one return at midnight back in September. Flew right over our houses. I live in Marsh Bend by the Everglades Rec Center and got a great video of it flying over us. Had a sonic boom then, too. It landed in the ocean off the coast of Jacksonville Beach.

[coffeebean]

Ahhhhh........so that's what that was!