Residents in Northeast Cleveland heard a loud explosion the morning of St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, 2026. So, was it an actual meteor?

A loud boom heard and felt widely across parts of Ohio and Pennsylvania on Tuesday was likely the result of a meteor.

The western sky and social media lit up Tuesday morning when a meteor streaked through the atmosphere over northeast Ohio. Jared Rackley, an employee with the National Weather Service in Pittsburgh, caught video of the large fireball as the suspected meteoroid fell to earth.

A large boom felt across eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania was likely the 'result of a meteor', the National Weather Service in Cleveland said, as videos of a fireball streaking across the sky cir

A rare fireball bright enough to be seen during broad daylight dazzled skies and triggered a sonic boom in parts of the eastern United States on Tuesday morning.

People across the area felt, heard and even saw what the National Weather Service believes was a meteor in the sky over Northeast Ohio Tuesday morning.

Skies across Northeast Ohio lit up with a fireball Tuesday morning, caused by an asteroid weighing about seven tons.

A 7-ton asteroid exploded over about 30 miles above the Earth over Medina County in northern Ohio around 9 a.m. on Tuesday.

NASA has confirmed the loud, booming sound heard near Cleveland on Tuesday morning was caused by an asteroid - which was approximately six feet in diameter and weighed roughly seven tons. According to the National Weather Service,