Whatever happened to sonic booms?

[FLOOB]

Growing up in the 1980s I remember sonic booms were more frequent than thunder. In Washington, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Idaho, California so don’t say it was a regional thing. I haven’t heard a sonic boom in decades I think.

[AKIron]

I remember when they would rattle the windows. They were banned around 50 years ago in the US for commercial and restricted for military.

[Shuffler]

Sonic removed all menu items that caused gas back in the 1990s.

[AKIron]

Sonic removed all menu items that caused gas back in the 1990s.

Grok says that's a damn lie. 

[Oldman731]

Growing up in the 1980s I remember sonic booms were more frequent than thunder.

My Wonder Bread Years were in Columbus, Ohio during the late 1950s and up to 1967.  During those years SAC used the town for practice - I imagine someone knew which Russian town we resembled.  B-58s were bombing us all the time.

Not that I miss that, you understand.

- oldman

[AKKuya]

Majestic 12 stepped in, declaring the sonic booms were scaring away the flying saucer men.