A meteor that exploded off the coast of Massachusetts set off a loud boom equivalent to 300 tons of TNT, NASA said.

People reported seeing the glowing space rock or hearing or feeling its breakup from Delaware to Montreal. Experts estimate that it was about three feet wide and traveling at 75,000 miles per hour whe

Officials with the American Meteor Society and NASA say a double boom heard in multiple states Saturday afternoon was a 3-foot meteor entering the atmosphere near the Massachusetts and New Hampshire border.

Local authorities have not yet confirmed the cause of the sound, and it remains unclear whether it was linked to an industrial incident, military activity or another event., US News, Times Now

The USGS noted the event was a "widely felt sonic boom from a suspected bolide," referring to a meteor that explodes in the atmosphere.

Attleboro area police departments and regional public safety dispatch centers fielded numerous calls from worried and curious residents about the sonic boom heard Saturday afternoon that was later det

How high did you jump when the boom from a meteor exploding in Massachusetts thundered across New England on Saturday, May 30 in the afternoon? Probably not as high as this dog. A thunderous boom was heard from Rhode Island to New Hampshire after NASA confirmed a meteor exploded over Cape Cod Bay.

NASA has confirmed that a bright fireball meteor exploded in the sky over New England on Saturday (May 30), releasing the equivalent energy of about 230 tons of TNT and generating a sonic boom heard across multiple U.S. states and two Canadian provinces.

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The meteor streaked across the region around 2 p.m., according to NASA, hurtling into Earth’s atmosphere at a speed of roughly 75,000 miles per hour.