A thunderous boom heard and felt widely across northeastern Ohio and parts of Pennsylvania on Tuesday morning was likely the result of a meteor.
Area residents took to social media, describing what they heard as “the loudest boom,” “a few sonic booms” and “rumbling.” Others reported seeing a fireball and a bright streak flash across the sky.
The Pittsburgh office of the National Weather Service posted a dramatic video on X, captured by one of its employees, showing a fireball with a long tail hurtling across a cloudless sky.
The weather service in Cleveland, meanwhile, shared imagery from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s GOES-19 satellite, saying: “The latest GLM imagery (1301Z) does suggest that the boom was a result of a meteor.”
Rocky objects traveling through space are known as meteoroids, but when they enter Earth’s atmosphere and create fireballs, they are called meteors. Any fragments that fall to Earth’s surface are meteorites.
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