Booms that rattled windows on Wednesday night could have been from a night-time training exercise at CFB Cold Lake.
Was it a bird? Was it a plane? Yes. It was a plane.
At least that’ s so far the best and most-likely theory as to what caused a couple of BOOMs that rattled buildings and windows in the Lac La Biche region Wednesday night.
Capt. Mat Strong, the spokesperson at Canadian Forces Cold Lake said the base had aircraft flying in their Air Weapons Range near Lac La Biche at around the same time area residents were trying to determine what at least two loud booms were.
"Aircraft from 4 Wing Cold Lake were conducting night operations inside the Cold Lake Air Weapons Range on the evening of 24 January in the vicinity of Lac La Biche,” Strong told the POST early Thursday morning.
POST staff contacted the base Wednesday night, one of several attempts to find the cause of the loud booms that rattled windows and had hundreds of area residents commenting on the newspaper’ s social media site. Several theories were researched through the night, including earthquakes, explosions, lake ice cracking and even a phenomenon called ‘frost quakes’ .
See the POST’ s column on our website for details on the process.
The affects of a sonic boom from jet fighter planes doing training exercises in the region is the most likely cause.
“These operations may have caused a disruption in the form of increased noise for the residents of this region, for this likely disruption, we apologize,” Strong told the POST.
Air Force officials are asking anyone who may have experienced a significant impact by this event to contact 4 Wing Operations.
