New England, Meteor
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Many home security cameras picked up the image of an object falling to earth, disappearing in a flash… and some say they heard a loud boom.
That loud boom and bright flash that woke many across Western New York early Wednesday? Scientists say it came from space.
Residents in one Western New York community are waking up after hearing, and feeling, what some described as an earthquake and others called a possible explosion. According to reports from residents in the area,
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.
NBC Boston meteorologist Pamela Gardner says it was likely a meteorite entering and exploding in our atmosphere. “There’s a satellite lighting detection around Boston -but no lightning! No earthquakes on USGS either,” Gardner said. The American ...