Eyewitnesses in New England and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s GOES-19 satellite reported a bright fireball on Saturday, May 30, at 2:06 p.m EDT accompanied by a loud noise.
The meteor appears to have fragmented at an altitude of 40 miles over northeastern Massachusetts and southeastern New Hampshire.
The energy released at breakup is estimated to be equivalent to about 300 tons of TNT, which accounts for the loud noise.
A bright fireball streaked across southeast Texas skies, creating a booming rumble when a meteor broke through the Earth’s atmosphere on Saturday. One woman claims a fragment crashed through her home.
According to NASA, the meteor became visible over Stagecoach, traveling southeast at roughly 35,000 miles per hour before breaking apart roughly 29 miles above the Earth’s surface just west of Cyprus station around 4:40 p.m. Central Time.
The fragmentation of the meteor, which NASA said weighed roughly a ton and had a 3-foot diameter, created a pressure wave that caused a loud booming noise.
Get ready for one of the most beautiful nights of the summer—not because of the weather, but because the Perseid meteor shower will be lighting up the sky this evening. And it’s arriving alongside a waning gibbous moon, just a few days past full, glowing bright for all to see.
If your skies are clear, you’ll have a perfect view of both the moon’s silver glow and the streaks of meteors tracing across the darkness. The Perseids are known for their magic—quick, bright flashes that vanish as suddenly as they appear.
It’s the perfect excuse to grab the hand of someone you love, spread a blanket on the grass, and lie back beneath the vast summer sky. The season is fleeting, and nights like this are rare. Step outside, breathe in the warm air, and let the meteors remind you that beauty often lasts only a moment—so don’t miss it.
Residents in parts of New York City and New Jersey were shaken by a loud boom Tuesday July 16 morning.. NASA officials saying it was likely due to a daylight fireball meteor.
NASA’s Meteor Watch team reports that the daylight fireball was seen at 11:17 a.m. ET, according to an update shared to Facebook Tuesday afternoon..
A daylight fireball is a meteor that is bright enough to be visible during daylight hours because it’s burning brighter than the sun’s light as it enters the Earth’s atmosphere…
Developing..
Hundreds of eyewitnesses across a wide region (Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and the Canadian province of Ontario)
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Fireball caught on home security camera turns Colorado night sky blue
An object described by news outlets and witnesses as a “mysterious fireball” briefly shot across the sky early Wednesday, raising widespread speculation about what it might have been.Residents – and experts – throughout the Midwest are weighing in with speculation.
Reports of unidentified flying objects are hardly new, although some seem to be ranking what looks like a blazing ball shooting across the sky particularly high on the highly-scientific awesome scale.
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It seems to be that time of year when the sky begins to fall! We have already been warned of several astroids nearing close to earth within the next few weeks. This one, well, is “natural” according to some..
A meteorite hit western Cuba on Friday afternoon, according to eyewitness reports.
And perhaps adding the oddest part to this… February 1 2019 was rumored since 2002 to be the target date for a meteor to hit earth.. back at the early part of this century there were fears it would be planet ending.
This is the AP news brief on the meteor and earthquake in Detroit January 16:
DETROIT (AP) — Experts say a bright light and what sounded like thunder in the sky above Michigan was a meteor. The American Meteor Society says it received hundreds of reports of a fireball Tuesday night over the state, including many in the Detroit area. Reports also came in from several other states and Ontario, Canada.
Some Michigan residents reported their homes shaking. The society says the reports suggest a space rock penetrated deep into the Earth’s atmosphere before it broke apart. The U.S. Geological Service says it registered as a 2.0 magnitude earthquake in Michigan.
Bill Cooke with NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office tells The Detroit News it was “definitely a meteoroid” and a rare sight for Michigan.
Other states where people reported seeing a fireball included Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Missouri.
More information now being revealed.. CBS in Detroit reported that NASA said the meteor was from deep in space and traveling 28000 miles per hour.. the rock broke apart in the atmosphere and the loud noise was from that .. There may be space rocks on the ground near Detroit. Local reports indicate that the race is on for people to ind them intact!
Other reports indicate that panic among people set in with the loud noise and rumble. It was not until officials told people what it really was that people understood it was not a second coming of Christ.. a bomb.. a missile attack… Or the end of the world.
But With the strength of this meteor, we could count the nation lucky. A little bigger, faster, or stronger, and a Chelyabinsk part 2 could have occurred on a cold Saturday night in the Michigan city.
Let’s hope that our loud visitor is not traveling with friends.
50 people reported concurrent sound associated with the event and 114 delayed. Reports are still coming in..
A massive fireball lit up Florida’s sky–so bright that some people even believed it to be an alien invasion!
A DAZZLING fireball spotted by hundreds of people as it streaked across the Florida skies sparked fears aliens could be landing.
The super-bright meteor, which was filmed on phones and dashcams, prompted calls from terrified locals to police.
