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Loud boom around 4pm Wednesday

Loud boom around 4pm Wednesday

Summertime
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3/23/2022 at 6:13 PM

I kept looking outside thinking something was hitting the side of the house! It was loud! (West end)
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Sound
3/23/2022 at 6:23 PM

Adam said "
What's level of confidence in that. My base contact figures that it shouldn’t be that, with training being about 30km away unless there’s something different about Todays training?
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Sound for sure can travel very far. Growing up, my grandparents had property just south of Neepawa. We frequently heard the guns. Some days they were quiet, many days they were very loud, loud enough to wake you from a dead sleep if the windows were open. It's about 50ish km as the crow flies.
cmp
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Definitely Shilo
3/23/2022 at 7:34 PM

Out here in Shilo it is very pronounced. I have heard those before and they will be aircraft dropped munitions. One of the ladies that has a window view reported she could see the clouds from the explosions in the direction of the training area.
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New Bridge
3/23/2022 at 8:13 PM

I'm in the west end a mile west of 18th and I can hear the pile driver working on the new bridge. Loud enough my deaf dog hears it as well.
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3/23/2022 at 8:17 PM

Around this time there was a long series of bangs and rumblings heard west of Virden which shook my workshop. It was almost like frost quakes but seemed to be timed at regular intervals.
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I’m
3/23/2022 at 8:33 PM

With Ronfay they are driving the stew piles in the ground for the new bridge. But I don’t think you would be hearing that upwards of boissevein but who knows. I could almost 99.99999999% guarantee it’s them driving the steel piles for the new bridge though.
Adam

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Bridge
3/23/2022 at 8:37 PM

ronfay said "I'm in the west end a mile west of 18th and I can hear the pile driver working on the new bridge. Loud enough my deaf dog hears it as well. "
I've heard them pounding away at that from a pretty good distance, they're making some good headway! I'm going with Shilo training on this one tho and the sound carrying more than usual for whatever reason. This was different from what I've heard from the bridge work, really like loud thunder/bomb. Louder and more physical rumbling than I can remember in Brandon in my 40+ years here but we seem have have some pretty convinced Shilo knowledable folks on here that seem pretty sure.
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Definitely
3/23/2022 at 9:08 PM

Firing at Shilo. Surprisingly we haven't heard or felt many of the blasts and we are only 3 miles from Shilo-but the few that did shake our house were definitely some big shells of some sort. I've heard a jet a few times-someone said earlier that it's a B52 bomber, and I can believe that. With the air just right, the firing can be heard a very long distance away.
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Grewup
3/23/2022 at 9:22 PM

in Douglas and if it wasn't a train shaking our house, it was artillery on the range.

The pile driver has a pretty constant sound and vibration. Artillery and bombs have a totally different sound and a shockwave.

That volcano that erupted earlier this year had it's sound and shockwave carry thousands of KM's.
manitobanerd
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Shilo
3/23/2022 at 9:44 PM

I can't reveal my source so take this as word of mouth but I've been told the US army in their B52 were dropping bombs of 500 pound and up to 2000 pound variants this afternoon on the training range as part of training.
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Loud boom around 4 pm
3/24/2022 at 8:55 AM

I worked in Shilo for nearly 30 years and we would routinely hear the blasts coming from the ranges but never have I felt shock waves like this before. Must be using some extra heavy munitions out on the ranges. Shook my house in the West end pretty good.
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I heard that too
3/24/2022 at 11:53 AM

manitobanerd said "I can't reveal my source so take this as word of mouth but I've been told the US army in their B52 were dropping bombs of 500 pound and up to 2000 pound variants this afternoon on the training range as part of training. "
I've heard too that there was practice bombing runs yesterday too. Not as specific details as you though.
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3/24/2022 at 12:17 PM

Saw this bad boy on the radar
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More?
3/24/2022 at 3:12 PM

The aircraft in light blue near the bottom is a B-52 bomber that just crossed the border into Canada as of 3:10pm today.

Edited by JosephC, 2022-03-24 15:13:15
Adam

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Top Aces
3/24/2022 at 4:17 PM

jrwill said "Would this have any connection to the loud booms? "
This one belongs to Top Aces, who I understand were in the area for JTAC training (Joint Terminal Attack Controller):
https://www.topaces.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_terminal_attack_controller

I see a couple of theirs on flight tracker again this PM. I'm a little out of my depth on military stuff, but in their case yesterday I'm told we'd be talking aircraft but not any kind of explosives.

Being the curious mind I am and because there's been a lot of interest in this topic I'll see if I can find out a little more about nature of anything else being carried out in the area yesterday, today or planned... being mindful that there will no doubt be some things that won't be able to comment on.
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3/24/2022 at 4:19 PM

Around 4:15. Two Canadian jets and an American B52.
Added photos at side.

Edited by bigmoe, 2022-03-24 16:21:51
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Learjet
3/25/2022 at 10:37 AM

Not sure why a Learjet would be buzzing around the range with a combat jet.
Adam

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Learjet
3/25/2022 at 10:44 AM

Wading into waters a little out of my depth again here, but guessing belongs to these guys too as part of the training they've been doing:
https://www.topaces.com/our-fleet/bombardier-learjet-35a

their CHETA61 and CHETA62 Alpha Jets are also showing:
https://www.topaces.com/our-fleet/dornier-alpha-jet
On the Learjet page where they describe missions, there's reference to "packages exercises with AlphaJets (and CF-18s)"
Anxiously awaiting someone that knows a lot more about this kind of stuff to set me straight :)
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Winner winner
3/26/2022 at 8:42 AM

don brown said "Those large booms have been going on for quite a while this afternoon and they are really pretty loud way out here, noticed yesterday that a person south of Brandon was commenting of Facebbook about being able to hear something similar.
Just wondering if with different atmospheric conditions today that the sound is travelling much further. "
And the prize goes to... Don B

Per Sun story, JTAC training included training alongside US Air Force from Minot. Apparently not using anything different from prev drills, but a high pressure ridge in the atmosphere can serve to magnify sound and allow it to travel further (“ducting”)

https://www.brandonsun.com/local/shilo-training-responsible-for-mid-week-cacophony-576331812.html
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B-52
3/27/2022 at 2:28 PM

Getting close to the yesterdays news pile, but fwiw Looks like there were actually three B-52s out on Wednesday going by this post…
A trio of B-52s, possibly out of Minot, ND, are in orbit just southeast of Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. #AE5890 as 60-0055#AE587F as 60-0026#AE5970 as AE5970 pic.twitter.com/NR9sauA8Op
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