TUPPER LAKE — A northern New York airspace manager says he saw an aircraft traveling in the Tupper Lake area around the time when a loud boom shook houses and buildings in the western Tri-Lakes shortly after 10 a.m. Thursday.

Lieutenant Colonel Brian Fulmer, the airspace manager for the New York Air National Guard’s 174th Attack Wing in Syracuse said he checked the radar tape from that day when he received a noise complaint about an alleged sonic boom last week and saw one aircraft in the area.

Traveling north to south a couple miles west of Tupper Lake, he said the craft was traveling at 25,000 feet in the air and was traveling under the speed of sound at around 10:10 a.m. Thursday. Jets are only allowed to travel at supersonic speeds above 30,000 feet, Fulmer said.

He said the jet was traveling at Mach .95 (the sound barrier is broken at Mach 1.0), so it would not produce a boom if traveling straight. However, if the plane took a turn at that speed, portions of the craft — the outside wing — would reach supersonic speeds and could produce a sonic boom.

However, Fulmer said he is unsure of whose jet this was.

The Vermont National Guard in Burlington, officials from the Fort Drum Army base near Watertown and officials from Barnes Air National Guard Base in Westfield, Massachusetts, have all said it was not their jets that caused the noise.

Eric Durr, a spokesman for the New York National Guard said there is not a plane in the state capable of producing a sonic boom.