Overview
- A bright meteor entered the atmosphere and fragmented over northeastern Massachusetts and southeastern New Hampshire, creating loud double booms that rattled homes across New England.
- NASA and NOAA’s GOES-19 satellite matched the flash with dozens of public sightings to confirm the event as a natural daytime bolide rather than re-entering space debris.
- Scientists estimate the object was roughly three feet wide, traveled near 75,000 miles per hour, and broke apart about 40 miles up, releasing energy equal to roughly 300 tons of TNT.
- Authorities reported no injuries or property damage and mapped any surviving fragments to the middle of Cape Cod Bay but the U.S. Coast Guard said it will not attempt retrieval.
- The incident, tracked by satellite sensors, the American Meteor Society and USGS seismograph non-detections, illustrates how combined public reports and remote sensing quickly resolve unusual atmospheric events.