The source of a noise that many people reported as an explosion in Queens Wednesday is being disputed and remains a mystery.
Emergency officials began getting reports of an explosion-like noise near JFK Airport at about 2:20 p.m.
But NORAD, the agency that controls and monitors F-15 and F-22 aircraft, said that wasn’t the case. NORAD issued this statement:
All indications are that it was NOT NORAD asset that caused the loud boom. There are F-15’s in the area enforcing the no fly zone, which was established by the FAA – but it is unlikely it was the F-15 that caused to boom. They are flying at a very high altitude.
The FDNY and NYPD said they found no evidence of anything actually exploding in the area, and later pinpointed the noise to the military jets.
Reports have come in from the Belmont Racetrack, Woodmere, Valley Stream and all around the region, stretching out to Nassau County on Long Island.
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