An incredible sight lit up the skies over northeast Ohio, and it came with a sound that people across several states could hear.
Video posted to social media by the superintendent of Olmsted Falls Schools near Cleveland showed a meteor streaking across the sky, reported ABC6.
The meteor was captured by a camera at the district’s bus garage.
Nearby residents flooded social media with concerned posts about the startling sound on Tuesday morning.
One X user described hearing “the loudest boom” in northeastern Ohio, while another user compared it to “thunder or [a] jet engine misfiring loudly.”
As these reports rolled in, National Weather Service forecasters in Cleveland jumped on the case. Their office found that the latest imagery “does suggest that the boom was a result of a meteor.”
Reports of a huge boom followed from people in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York. The sound was also captured on a Ring security camera. NASA confirmed the object was a meteor.
The agency’s Pittsburgh office wrote on X, “We're receiving reports across western PA and eastern OH of a loud boom and a fireball in the sky. Our satellite data suggest it was possibly a meteor entering the atmosphere.”
NASA explained that the loud boom was caused by the meteor breaking the sound barrier.
