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The New England event came just days after a bright meteor was reported over Western New York during the early morning hours of May 27.
Did you hear or see the meteor this weekend? One NBC5 viewer, Ashton Albright of Jeffersonville, captured a video of the meteor streaking across the sky over Smugglers Notch.
A meteor that exploded off the coast of Massachusetts set off a loud boom equivalent to 300 tons of TNT, NASA said.
The American Meteor Society says a 3-foot meteor caused the boom heard across Massachusetts and parts of the Northeast Saturday.
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.
A powerful meteor exploded high over Massachusetts and New Hampshire, creating a loud sonic boom heard across New England and New York.