At around 3:15pm, reports began to come into the FOX 5 DC newsroom as well on Twitter of an explosion sound, as far away as Annapolis, but including DC and Northern Virginia.
According to FOX News, a F-16 fighter jet from DC National Guard was "cleared supersonic to respond" to unknown Cessna ignoring radio queries flying on "strange flight path" outside nation’s capital, officials say.FOX 5's David Kaplan connected withwho received a statement from the Virginia State police regarding a possible aircraft crash in Staunton, VA:
Multiple Tweets earlier in the afternoon state that it could be the result of an aircraft sonic boom involved in a military exercise including one from Annapolis's Office of Emergency Management. The city of Bowie also Tweeted that it was from a plane out of Joint Base Andrews. The aircraft is believed to have been a F-16.
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