Air Force takes rap for loud booms in Utah desert

Published January 9, 2013 11:51pm ET



SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The U.S. Air Force took responsibility Wednesday for a set of mysterious booms that had scientists stumped as they pondered the origin of the vibrations that were widely reported across northern Utah.

They were B-52 bombing runs in the desert.

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