Out of control Chinese rocket to hit the Earth - and they don't know where (they do now)

The Firestarter

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Is that the sound of it breaking the sound barrier?
In effect yes, with the specific that it has never gone subsonic after reentry. The boom is the result of the shock waves experienced by a body in supersonic flow , they are constant, and not just occurring once when the flow becomes supersonic.