A fireball meteor seen over Cleveland, Ohio, on NOAA's GOES lightning mapper on Tuesday. Image courtesy NOAA GOES EAST
Residents across Cleveland reported a sudden boom that shook windows and startled neighborhoods Tuesday morning as a meteor blazed overhead.
National Weather Service offices in Cleveland and Pittsburgh received multiple reports of the fireball shortly after 9 a.m. EDT. An employee at the Pittsburgh office captured video of the event.
As reports of the shaking spread, NOAA's GOES-East satellite helped confirm the cause. Its lightning mapper detected a brief bright flash over the region, despite no thunderstorms in the area at the time, indicating the signal was likely from the meteor rather than lightning.
More than 100 pending reports were submitted to the American Meteor Society website on Tuesday from Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Virginia and Maryland.
