Did SpaceX create the loud boom heard in Alabama and Florida?

No, that loud boom you heard this evening wasn’t a truck crashing into a pole down the road from your house.

And nothing has unexpectedly fallen inside your garage.

But Baldwin County residents took to social media this evening to report hearing a similar loud boom shortly after 10 p.m.

The sound was likely the sound of a sonic boom from the landing of a space capsule in the Gulf of Mexico hundreds of miles away near Panama City, Florida.

Before landing, the capsule lit up the night sky as far away across Alabama, judging from social media posts.

The private flight carrying two Saudi astronauts and two other passengers returned to Earth after a nine-day trip to the International Space Station, the Associated Press reported.

The SpaceX capsule carrying the four passengers parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico, just off the Florida Panhandle, 12 hours after undocking from the orbiting lab, according to AP.

“Thought someone kicked my door about 5 minutes ago. Come to find out it was this,” a Pensacola resident posted on Facebook.

“Anyone just hear a loud boom? Shook my windows. In Quail Creek,” a Fairhope resident posted.

SpaceX tweeted that the Dragon splashed down shortly after 10 p.m.:

Images of the capsule’s landing toward the Gulf -- and the possible resulting “boom” -- also circulated on social media as well.