{"id":357301,"date":"2026-07-30T08:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T08:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/357301\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T08:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T08:21:09","slug":"florida-explosion-sonic-boom-heard-in-orlando-as-spacex-rocket-takes-off-videos-emerge-online-unusually-loud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/357301\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida: Explosion, sonic boom heard in Orlando as SpaceX rocket takes off; videos emerge online- \u2018unusually loud\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

An explosion or a sonic boom-like sound was heard in Orlando<\/a> and other parts of Florida<\/a> after a SpaceX<\/a> rocket was launched there on Thursday, July 30.<\/p>\n

\"AA view of the night sky amid sounds of sonic boom in Florida. Image for representational purposes. (Unsplash)<\/p>\n

\u201cJust heard the sonic boom in central Florida!,\u201d one person replied to SpaceX announcing the launch.<\/p>\n

A person also added \u201cI heard the boom at about 3:22AM just east of downtown Orlando and it was unusually loud for being so far away from the LZ.\u201d<\/p>\n

There has been no reported explosion in Orlando, Florida at the time of writing.<\/p>\n

Florida residents hear \u2018loud boom\u2019<\/p>\n

Several Florida residents reported hearing a \u2018loud boom\u2019 as the rocket took off. \u201cLiving in Florida is thinking someone is breaking into your house cause of a loud noise and the building shaking but it was actually a rocket launch causing a sonic boom at 3am oh awesome…,\u201d one person remarked<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Another added<\/a> \u201cClassified satellite launch at 3:00 AM with a Return to Launch Site landing means Florida residents get a mandatory sonic boom alarm clock. Anything for national defense!\u201d.<\/p>\n

Yet another said<\/a>, \u201cjust felt the\u2026boom all the way in Palm Bay.\u201d One person also added<\/a> \u201cTF? Anybody else hear that big boom in Florida?!?!?!\u201d. On Facebook too, people began to express their complaints. One wrote \u201ci assume it\u2019s most likely from sonic boom following successful launch from the Cape which occurred at 3:09 am\u2026 although I\u2019ve never heard and felt it no where near that much. Did anyone else have your home shake with a loud boom? *I live close to the Walmart market\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Several others shared their experiences in the comment section of the public group. \u201cPine lake estates here. Shook my house too. I thought my husband opened the garage side door,\u201d one shared. Another added , \u201cYes, me too! Jones and Narcoossee. It startled me! This is the post I was looking for thank you I thought I was the only one.\u201d Yet another said \u201cit sounded awful; I live in Crossprairie. 3:22am.\u201d<\/p>\n

What SpaceX said about \u2018loud boom\u2019<\/p>\n

Notably, SpaceX had warned of this \u2018sonic boom\u2019 a while back. On X, it wrote<\/a> \u201cAll systems are looking good, and weather is 70% favorable for liftoff. Propellant load is about to begin for today’s launch of NROL-95 from Florida,\u201d adding, \u201cAbout eight minutes after liftoff, Falcon 9\u2019s first stage will return to Landing Zone 2 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, announcing its arrival with a sonic boom.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An explosion or a sonic boom-like sound was heard in Orlando and other parts of Florida after a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[145851,145854,139,145852,145853,145856,141,140,145855],"class_list":["post-357301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-florida-explosion","tag-florida-orlando-sonic-boom","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-explosion","tag-orlando-explosion-todau","tag-orlando-explosion-today","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-spacex-launch-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}