Meteor over Massachusetts causes explosion reports, sightings from Delaware to Montreal

[BigmanPigman]

Source: Politico

The American Meteor Society said that the booms heard about 2:30 p.m. were actually caused by a meteor about 3 feet wide entering the atmosphere around the New Hampshire border with Massachusetts, north of Boston.

People in a handful of states posted on social media about feeling the buildings they were in shaking. Several videos posted on X also captured what sounded like two quick booms, with no fire, smoke or other visual causes.

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Here are videos of the boom.

[Lovie777]

1. And I'm watching meteor movies......

on YouTube.

[BigmanPigman]

2. I was just reading articles about meteors

and learned there have been a large amount so far in 2026. No explanation as to the possible cause.

I don't believe in coincidences, I believe in synchronicity. Watching YouTube meteor films is an example.

[LunaSea]

14. Earth is moving through a region of debris.

Earth is currently traversing a debris field generated by an asteroid that is fragmenting as it approaches the Sun. This event is leading to an impressive display of meteors visible from our planet.
Details of the Meteor Cluster

Number of Meteors: 282 meteors have been identified as part of this cluster.
Source: These meteors are believed to originate from a disintegrating asteroid.


https://phys.org/news/2026-04-sun-asteroid-pieces-earth-flying.html

[surfered]

3. It's scary that a 3' wide one would cause shaking. An asteroid would be more than problematic.

[sheshe2]

4. 25K-160K Miles per hour.

WBZTV in Boston posted on its Instagram account that meteors cause a sonic boom because, "They enter Earth's atmosphere at anywhere from 25,000 to 160,000 miles per hour, and larger space rocks can travel deep enough to create pressure waves."

The station's meteorologist Eric Fisher posted about the blast on his Instagram account. "CONFIRMED: Meteor exploding on entry caused that big boom across the Boston area Saturday afternoon!"

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/05/30/massachusetts-boston-meteor/7311780174098/

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I posted about this earlier, we heard it.

[calimary]

9. Yikes!

[BigmanPigman]

6. 3 feet is a really big one.

"Meteoroids are distinguished as objects significantly smaller than asteroids, ranging in size from grains to objects up to one meter (3.28 feet) wide. Objects smaller than meteoroids are classified as micrometeoroids or space dust. Many are fragments from comets or asteroids, whereas others are collision impact debris ejected from bodies such as the Moon or Mars."

[eppur_se_muova]

5. If I had heard that in our area, I would have said "Meh, just blowing up old munitions out on the Arsenal".

That happens on a regular basis; it used to be restricted to Thursdays (I don't know why). Lately it seems I'm as likely to hear it on Wed or Fri. Some of them do shake the house noticeably.

[Polybius]

7. It's aliens

[BigmanPigman]

8. Aliens are too smart to decide to come to the USA while tRump is still alive.

They're probably boycotting all travel to the USA like all smart tourists are doing due to the fucking moron. They certainly would not want to be "taken to our leader".

[airplaneman]

17. Yes Aliens would have to be plastered

To want to come here. Probably why they crash so often. And they could not speak coherent if you talked to them.
-Airplane

[twodogsbarking]

10. We need a ballroom to protect us.

[GiqueCee]

11. It was most likely the meteor...

... breaking the sound barrier. When I was a kid, 70 years ago, fighter jets breaking the sound barrier were not uncommon, until they were ordered to stop doing it. When they did it at low altitudes over residential areas, the shock waves would shatter windows. Tommy B's dad did it once over Drumlin Road in Westport, and the neighbors were NOT happy. Us kids thought it was cool as hell.

[BigmanPigman]

12. I've listened to the air traffic controllers and pilots' tapes from 9/11

Many times. Military pilots were trying to locate the hijacked planes' location and tried to catch up with them from various military air bases. From the recordings made of that tragic day I heard a pilot say, "I don't care how many windows we brake" since they had an important mission to save the hijacked planes.

[electric_blue68]

18. Wow....

And then (tangential) us here, in NYC and, of course, anyone in a big city, or along a plane route - having no commercial planes in the air for several days. We'd hear an AF jet every once in a while.

[BigmanPigman]

19. I was really impressed by the 2 pilots

who were called upon to find and stop the 4th plane from crashing. Since it was happening really quickly there wasn't time to do the usual procedures before taking off. There wasn't even time to load missiles onto their 2 planes so their own planes would be used as missiles to take down the hijacked aircraft. They spoke afterwards and said that they knew it would be a suicide mission as one plane would fly into the front of the plane and the other pilot would hit the rear. The hijacked plane crashed before they were able to do this.

[electric_blue68]

20. Woaaah... what a situation!

[Bengus81]

13. Build one of those Trump ballroom domes over all of New England and eliminate

that problem and risk forever.

[LudwigPastorius]

15. BOOM you say?

[Wonder Why]

16. I told you people - Don't light a lighter when trump farts!