Meteor Causes Explosive Booms Across New England, Shaking Buildings
On Saturday afternoon, residents across New England reported hearing explosive booms that shook buildings in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The American Meteor Society confirmed that these sounds were caused by a meteor approximately three feet wide entering the atmosphere near the New Hampshire-Massachusetts border. The meteor, described as a large fireball resembling a shooting star in the daytime sky, was unlikely to have struck the ground, according to Robert Lunsford, a fire program monitor. Reports of the event were received from Delaware to Montreal, with many people experiencing the ground shaking or witnessing the fireball. The U.S. Geological Survey received numerous reports of shaking, but confirmed that the event was not an earthquake.