© KSBWKSBW's Salinas station looks a little bit like a UFO tracking center.
Salinas, California - Somebody get Fox Mulder. A mysterious loud boom was heard and felt Monday morning from as far south as Soledad all the way north to Seaside Monday morning.
The big boom happened at 10:51 a.m. and rattled residents in Soledad, Chualar, Pebble Beach, Carmel, Monterey, Salinas, Marina, and Seaside.
Military and law enforcement officials told KSBW they are not sure what caused the explosive-like sound.
Several residents said they ran outside, looked up, and spotted an extremely fast-moving military jet making a U-turn over the Carmel Valley.
"Almost broke my windows, ran outside and saw a curved jet stream over Carmel Valley," resident Melinda Mayland said.
With no confirmed cause of the boom, rumors about UFO's, and requests to alert
X-Files TV character FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder, quickly spread through the local rumor mill.
It is not unusual for U.S. Navy planes on training missions to fly out of Naval Air Station Lemoore near Visalia, Calif. and streak over south Monterey County. Their powerful engines can cause a sonic boom when they break the sound barrier.
Comment: SOTT wonders what is UP with all the recent alleged man-made space objects either falling out of the sky, or forcing astronauts to take shelter in lifeboats? Is it possible that it is not really "space junk" and such explanations are being offered to cover up the fact that the planet is being subjected to cometary fragment bombardment?