Residents reported a sharp boom and shaking homes after a meteor fragmented high over New England, NASA said.

Many home security cameras picked up the image of an object falling to earth, disappearing in a flash… and some say they heard a loud boom.

That loud boom and bright flash that woke many across Western New York early Wednesday? Scientists say it came from space.

The American Meteor Society said a boom heard by residents in multiple states Saturday afternoon was a 3-foot wide meteor entering the atmosphere near the Massachusetts and New Hampshire border.

Video filmed by X user Bad Beat King captures a bright meteor streaking across the early morning sky over East Amherst, New York, at around 5:15 a.m. on May 27, 2026. The doorbell camera footage shows a brilliant white-orange streak of light suddenly appearing high in the dark predawn sky.