Did any of the reports say yet why the F15 broke the sound barrier over land? I'm guessing a pilot is having to face a review board now.
I only recall hearing a sonic boom once in my life. I was in a meeting or training seminar at work not long after 9-11 and the class was interrupted by a loud boom like that. Later on the news I heard a passenger on a jet heading towards O Hare airport got unruly and Air National Guard F16s had been scrambled to intercept the airliner and they exceeded the sound barrier over Northern Illinois near my office causing the sonic boom.