• ASouth Carolina man described the crash of an F-35 stealth jet fighter that crashed and was lost for days by the U.S. Marines as sounding like a “meteorite … from outer space or something.”
• Randolph White, 72, said he was in the bathroom shaving when he heard a “screeching.”
• “Between a screech and a whistle,” White said — before attempting to replicate the sound made by the cutting-edge $80 million fighter.
• “I said, what in the world is this? And I heard a boom! Then my whole house shook,” he recalled in an interview with WBTW.

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