The US Air Force (USAF) has apologised for a sonic boom that was heard as a loud explosion over Norfolk and Suffolk. People ...

Simon Boston, who was at a petrol station in Necton, near Swaffham, Norfolk, said the "huge boom" sounded like a car crash.

The cause of the sonic boom which left windows rattling across Norwich has been revealed as a US Air Force jet based out of RAF Lakenheath.

A sonic boom heard across parts of the East and South East of England sounded like "an explosion", shook houses and set off car alarms, according to police emergency call data. The loud bang was heard ...