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A loud explosion noise heard in the metroplex area of Washington, D.C., and areas as far east as Maryland’s east coast and west as Manassas, Virginia, was a military aircraft.
The City of Annapolis Office of Emergency Management reported that the boom was in fact caused by an authorized DOD flight.
“The loud boom heard throughout the DMV area was caused by an authorized DOD flight,” the office said. “This flight caused a sonic boom. That is all the information available at this time.”
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Bowie, Maryland officials confirmed that the sonic boom heard came from a plane from Joint Base Andrews.
The DOD did not immediately respond to questions from Fox News Digital about the incident.
Around the same time the military plane went supersonic, another plane crashed into the mountains of Virginia, sparking speculation of a connection.
Reuters reported that US authorities sent fighter jets to chase a light aircraft that entered the restricted airspace over the Capitol area and later crashed into the mountains of southwestern Virginia.
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A Cessna Citation departing from Elizabethton, Tennessee and bound for Islip, New York in the sparsely populated town of Montebello, Virginia, crashed around 3 p.m., according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
Congressional sources told Fox News that the U.S. Capitol was in “AirCon” on Sunday as officials tracked the plane as it pierced the no-fly zone in the Capitol’s region.
Fox is told that security officials at the Capitol have momentarily switched the state of alert from “Green” to “Yellow”. Blue” and “Red” are higher alert levels, and when the latter is issued, the Capitol is evacuated.
Officials told Fox that the Capitol was in an elevated position for a short time before determining that the plane entering restricted airspace posed no threat. Officials even told Fox that the Capitol was never in danger.
Rumors began circulating on social media around 3:15 p.m. Sunday about a loud explosion that was heard throughout Washington, D.C.
The Pentagon, the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense (DOD), is the largest office building in the world by floor space. (STAFF/AFP via Getty Images)
One user posted, “Has anyone felt that explosion in #DC,” while another person replied, “Especially in Prince George’s,” referring to a nearby county in Maryland.
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Another Twitter user posted, “Did you feel what felt like an explosion! Thinking #sonicboom but from what? I’m just south of Bowie. If you felt it tell me where you did it. Thank you.”
A user on the Eastern Shore in Queen Ann’s County, across the Chesapeake Bay from Annapolis, reported the explosion.
The hashtag #explosion was trending on Twitter Sunday afternoon as reports poured in about the noise.
“As the explosion subsided, I heard a plane flying over Chesapeake Bay. Estimated altitude 25,000 ft with contrails. No reports. Did anyone hear this,” the user asked.
“I live on the east coast and it shook my house,” another user commented. “I thought there was an explosion somewhere. Scary.’
Greg Wehner is a breaking news reporter for Fox News Digital.
