Anyone else just heard a very loud bang

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1. I think it was a sonic boom, heard across the country

2. Sorry I was with your mom and she fell.

3. Heard it too. Came here looking for answers.

4. Heard it in Brentwood, Essex (zone 9)

5. I’m in Catford, didn’t hear anything

6. shared (scarborough)

7. In Greenwich borough, didn’t hear anything

8. Nothing in Islington

9. Maybe something to do with the VJ Day thing?

10. Heard and felt it, shook my whole building. Dartford.

11. Heard it in Zone 6!

12. In Dartford, didn’t hear anything but the building shook really hard

13. It was a Euro fighter. Tracked it around the premier of London just now

    Edit: with screenshot

    https://preview.redd.it/el6cbg9tz5jf1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=75df3c68b0d1525d6a61a53d5d0a043f7fd81ea3

14. Sonic boom from a Euro fighter. Heard all the way up in Cambridgeshire too!

15. Eurofighter Typhoon, Reg: ZK302. Looks like it intercepted another plane and is now following it over Royston from what I can see on ADS-B Exchange.

16. I’m in Lewisham.. heard nothing

17. RAF Typhoon.

18. RAF Typhoon intercepting a buisness jet.

    It’s the QRA out of RAF Coningsby.

19. Only took it 16minutes to get to Manchester crazy

20. Nothing in Maidstone, Kent.

21. Don’t recall hearing anything in Streatham

22. Huh, yeah I was driving at the time in Esher. Did wonder wtf it was. Sounded like someone dropped a 56 ton block of steel.

23. Doubt I could hear it over the traffic noise.

24. Nothing substantial over Bromley. Definitely get the impression it was east-southeast in London.

25. QRA is broadcasting its ADSB?

26. I farted

27. https://preview.redd.it/ied13lu9a6jf1.png?width=1907&format=png&auto=webp&s=951ed95e185a166c6e9f703e70c2fc3f405515ee

    There was a point where the EUFI and it’s quarry fly right over the top of the Lancaster for the VJ memorial. How poetic!

28. I heard it too.. Grays location

29. Heard it in Bexley whilst out for a walk

30. Nothing in Camberwell hun x

31. What i wicked expirance to be part of big up to our raf for keeping the sky’s safe 🇬🇧🇬🇧

32. RAF Typhoon says casual UK

    https://preview.redd.it/6n7s1ti3e6jf1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3db407604b3cb3663d0181ab96575585379b46a9

33. It was Oasis rehearsing their first single in Ireland.

34. 

35. it was an RAF plane that went to escort a passenger plane that had lost contact with air traffic control
    [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7vl8vdj225o](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7vl8vdj225o)

36. https://metro.co.uk/2025/08/15/raf-jets-alerted-escort-plane-sonic-boom-23921879/?ito=facebook%7Csocial%7Cmetroukfacebook&fbclid=IwZnRzaAMMOfZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHpAZyTtV-AUFAP_TJZ8geZ0gaU__AY5e8n_zKQLBFFCLdj0VZgPyUV0-smPM_aem_pOsEw8gOcrb-cJj71bicWA

37. No that’s just my upstairs neighbours

38. I live under the City airport flight path. Those bastard*s effin keep me awake night after night
    Lucky you only have a random bang

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