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Residents reported a sharp boom and shaking homes after a meteor fragmented high over New England, NASA said.
People reported seeing the glowing space rock or hearing or feeling its breakup from Delaware to Montreal. Experts estimate that it was about three feet wide and traveling at 75,000 miles per hour whe
Officials with the American Meteor Society and NASA say a double boom heard in multiple states Saturday afternoon was a 3-foot meteor entering the atmosphere near the Massachusetts and New Hampshire border.
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Meteor explosion heard across parts of the Northeast
A sonic boom heard by thousands across parts of the Northeast was a meteor traveling at roughly 42,000 mph before breaking up 31 miles above Earth, NASA confirmed.
Attleboro area police departments and regional public safety dispatch centers fielded numerous calls from worried and curious residents about the sonic boom heard Saturday afternoon that was later det
NASA has confirmed that a bright fireball meteor exploded in the sky over New England on Saturday (May 30), releasing the equivalent energy of about 230 tons of TNT and generating a sonic boom heard across multiple U.S. states and two Canadian provinces.
Residents across Massachusetts and parts of Rhode Island were left startled Saturday afternoon after a powerful boom
See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A mysterious boom that rattled homes and sparked confusion across Massachusetts and the wider Northeast on May 30 has been ...