Footage from a satellite confirmed that a May 30 sonic boom heard over the northeastern US was from a meteor, NASA stated.
A meteor that exploded off the coast of Massachusetts set off a loud boom equivalent to 300 tons of TNT, NASA said.
The USGS noted the event was a "widely felt sonic boom from a suspected bolide," referring to a meteor that explodes in the atmosphere.
A loud boom was heard across Southern New England Saturday afternoon.
It sounded like an explosion. For some, it felt like one. Just after 2 p.m. on May 30, residents across Massachusetts—and ...
A loud boom that rattled homes across Massachusetts, Rhode Island and parts of New Hampshire on Saturday ...
Attleboro area police departments and regional public safety dispatch centers fielded numerous calls from worried and curious ...
Adam Lark, a physics professor at Hamilton College and director of the Peters Observatory, said it was a meteor exploding in ...
A significant flash was detected by the GOES-19 weather satellite around the time of the reports.
The unsettling boom, rumble and shaking heard and felt across Greater Boston Saturday afternoon may have come from a meteor, according to meteorologist Danielle Noyes. Now it's up to NASA to confirm ...
Footage shows a dog being spooked by the sound and jumping up off a couch.
Seismometers caught a rare meteor blast over Cape Cod Bay, giving Woods Hole scientists a unique look at the explosion.