The sonic boom that Central Florida residents heard in the early morning hours on Monday wasn’t an earthquake or Superman breaking the sound barrier. It was just the reentry of the Falcon 9 rocket.

  • Many woke up to the sounds of sonic booms from the returning Falcon 9 rocket
  • Some thought the sounds were caused by an earthquake

The SpaceX rocket lifted off at 12:45 a.m. from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, which carried 5,000 pounds of food and supplies to the International Space Station.

But when it returned to the station about 10 minutes later it created such sonic booms that many people were calling 911 and the media.

In fact, this station received dozens of phone calls for an hour and a half and people on the station’s Facebook page had a lot to say about it.

“House shook, thought someone was outside of our house in Port Orange,” wrote Christie Commiso.

While some thought it was an earthquake, others thought it could have been something more terrible.

“With the current state of terrorist attacks in this country right now and death in the air after Orlando, some genius thought this would be a good idea with MINIMAL news coverage,” Cathi Bonadio noted.

Bonadio continued that it seemed odd that other rockets have landed on a platform out in the ocean with no sonic booms, but those platforms are much further away while the Falcon 9 rocket landed on the ground.

But others were more than happy to hear the music of space travel.

“LOVE the sonic booms!!!!!,” Sandi Weiner exclaimed. A lot.