NASA says a fireball as heavy as an elephant caused the double boom that rang out over New England

A spectacular meteor explosion lit up the skies off the Massachusetts coast Saturday afternoon, unleashing a powerful sonic boom felt across the state and even into Rhode Island. …

Some Facebook users in Massachusetts said the boom even shook their homes

According to preliminary reports submitted to the American Meteor Society, dozens of people across the Northeast reported seeing the fireball around 2 p.m. ET Saturday.

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…

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Reports of an explosion from people across New England Saturday afternoon sent police agencies and others scrambling to understand what caused a double boom that shook buildings…

NASA confirmed that a fireball passed over Massachusetts at 2:06 p.m., releasing a blast of energy equal to what it said was an estimated 300 tons of TNT.

Residents throughout New England experienced a ‘double boom’ caused by a 3-feet-wide meteor that entered the atmosphere north of Boston.

SAN FRANCISCO -- A loud boom heard across eastern Massachusetts and other parts of the US Northeast on Saturday afternoon was likely caused by a meteor entering the atmosphere and…

American Meteor Society program monitor Robert Lunsford said the group received dozens of reports from Delaware to Montreal with people either hearing the double boom.

Meteor was travelling at 75,000 miles per hour (more than 120,000 km/h) at an altitude of 40 miles when it broke apart

Update: 3-foot wide meteor enters atmosphere near Massachusetts and New Hampshire border causing loud boom over Boston https://t.co/FkEwCDRGXa pic.twitter.com/UeFnFh5ID0

A meteor hurtling toward Earth exploded over the northeastern United States on Saturday, local time, NASA said.

A meteor broke apart over the US state of Massachusetts. Several people reported that the buildings they were in shook during the incident.

Massachusetts and New Hampshire residents alarmed by loud booms, with social media users reporting they were so powerful that houses were shaking.

A meteor broke apart over Massachusetts, with several residents reporting building tremors during the event.

The event occurred at about 2:06 p.m. local time and was detected by eyewitnesses and NOAA's GOES-19 satellite, NASA said in a post on X.

People from Delaware to Montreal reported either hearing loud booms or seeing the fireball in the sky over weekend

A meteor traveling at approximately 75,000 miles per hour exploded high above the northeastern United States, producing a bright fireball and sonic booms heard across…

A Massachusetts resident described feeling her apartment shake after a meteor exploded high above New England, releasing energy equivalent to about 300 tons of TNT, according to…