We received emails from readers on Saturday afternoon, May 30, not long after boom reverberated in the area and up and down the east coast that turned out to be a 3-foot wide meteor entering the atmosphere and exploding.
One reader wrote: “We heard a loud boom around 2pm today and it might have been this.
The American Meteor Society received dozens of reports from people “hearing the double boom, feeling the ground shake or seeing the fireball,” according to Associated Press.
NASA told ABC News in a statement that “The energy released at breakup is estimated to be equivalent to about 300 tons of TNT…”
