(meteorobs) Geminids and sonic booms

[Kim Youmans]

I received a call from a reporter at the Myrtle Beach Sun-Times a short 
while ago; he stated that many folks had heard a sonic boom last night at 
app. 7:30 and had associated it with meteors.  The reporter also mentioned 
the caveat that the military flies supersonic craft just a few miles 
offshore.

I told the guy I was not aware of any land-falling, sonic boom-creating 
Geminids and that the shower was on its decline last night.  Following the 
blade of Occums razor, I "guessed" that the simplest explanation was a 
military aircraft, heard around the time one or more bright, post-max 
Geminids appeared in the sky.

Would anyone have any further light to shed on the possibility that a 
Geminid might produce a sonic boom?

Kim Youmans