A meteor caused quite a commotion this weekend after it broke up in Massachusetts, with people across the Northeast seeing and hearing the fireball. One NBC5 viewer, Ashton Albright of Jeffersonville,

A meteor that exploded Saturday afternoon near Boston shook buildings and scared locals after a loud boom was heard at about 2:30 p.m. Residents throughout New England experienced a ‘double boom’ caused by a 3-feet-wide meteor that entered the atmosphere north of Boston,

When a meteor exploded over Cape Cod it was estimated to be the equivalent of about 300 tons of TNT. See satellite video

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

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.

Did you hear the loud boom over Rhode Island on Saturday? By now, you likely know that the source of the noise was a meteor exploding over Cape Cod Bay, as NASA identified. "Eyewitnesses in New England and @NOAA's GOES-19 [Geostationary Operational ...

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.