"A loud bang heard across a large part of England was from a sonic boom caused by a Typhoon jet, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed.
Police and fire services in the West Midlands were inundated with phone calls shortly after 6pm from concerned members of the public.Many people on Twitter and other social networking sites confirmed they had also heard the noise, some as far as Swindon and Oxfordshire.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Defence confirmed the bang was caused by a Typhoon fighter aircraft.
The plane was one of two Typhoons that had been launched following an emergency call from a helicopter."
There is definitely more to this story than meets the eye.
Are we to believe that 2 Typhoons were scrambled from RAF Coningsby and saw the need to go supersonic to intercept a helicopter broadcasting on the wrong frequency.
If the sonic boom was heard from Coventry to Swindon and we know the rapid reaction Typhoon interceptors are based in Lincolnshire we must assume that a serious and credible threat to our air defence was identified somewhere in the general South West. There is no way that two fighters would have been scrambled because of a helicopter broadcasting an emergency signal.
If an helicopter was in trouble then rescue helicopters would have been scrambled not supersonic interceptors and they would have been sent from a nearer location than Lincolnshire.The fact that the planes were travelling at supersonic speed across the country means they were in a hurry to intercept something that was travelling at speed towards the South West which must have been picked up on radar. The fact that the MOD has come up with such a ridiculous explanation is even more proof that something has been covered up here.What could it have been though that provoked this response?
Does anyone have any theories or inside knowledge?
