Meteor Explosion: Bright Meteor Fireball Shakes New England With Sonic Boom (opens in new tab)

A bright fireball streaked across parts of New England in the U\.S\. on Saturday \(May 31\) afternoon, accompanied by a loud boom, after a meteor broke apart high in the atmosphere, NASA said citing satellite imagery\. The event occurred at about 2:06 p\.m\. EDT \(1806 GMT\) and was detected by eyewitnesses and NOAA's GOES-19 satellite, NASA said in a post on X\. The meteor fragmented at an altitude of roughly 40 miles \(64 km\) over northeastern Massachusetts and southeastern New Hampshire, ...