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Moment a meteor creates Sonic boom over Massachusetts
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Did you hear or see the meteor this weekend? One NBC5 viewer, Ashton Albright of Jeffersonville, captured a video of the meteor streaking across the sky over Smugglers Notch.
The USGS noted the event was a "widely felt sonic boom from a suspected bolide," referring to a meteor that explodes in the atmosphere.
Did you hear the loud boom over Rhode Island on Saturday? By now, you likely know that the source of the noise was a meteor exploding over Cape Cod Bay, as NASA identified. "Eyewitnesses in New England and @NOAA's GOES-19 [Geostationary Operational ...
The American Meteor Society says a 3-foot meteor caused the boom heard across Massachusetts and parts of the Northeast Saturday.
Residents reported a sharp boom and shaking homes after a meteor fragmented high over New England, NASA said.