Tens of Thousands Feel ‘Loud Boom’ Across 4 States Because a Massive Fireball Just Shattered Over Lake Erie ...

Some residents immediately feared the sound was an explosion, according to CBS affiliate WOIO, but weather service officials say it appears to have been a meteor.

A large boom heard across the Houston area Saturday afternoon was a very bright meteor entering Earth’s atmosphere, authorities said. NASA’s Meteoroid Environments Office confirmed a meteor traveled ...

Fireball meteors were spotted over Northeast Ohio on March 22 and 23 following a large meteor explosion on March 17. Meteorite hunters have searched Medina County, where fragments from the explosion ...

The fireball was first spotted over the Atlantic Ocean before heading southwest at 30,000 miles per hour.

Space researchers prize meteorites because they can be 4.6-billion-year-old time capsules.