{"id":544657,"date":"2026-03-18T14:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T14:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/544657\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T14:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T14:29:08","slug":"did-a-meteor-really-hit-cleveland-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/544657\/","title":{"rendered":"Did a meteor really hit Cleveland, Ohio?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">You may have heard reports of booms in Ohio on Tuesday, and with that came further news that it could be because of a meteor hitting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Is that true? Per the National Weather Service, the answer is: Yes! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=1259527329620092&amp;set=pcb.1259528099620015\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:In a Facebook post;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;In a Facebook post&quot;}\" class=\"link \">In a Facebook post<\/a>, they wrote this: &#8220;We&#8217;ve been receiving reports of a loud boom and fireball in the sky across parts of western PA and eastern OH. Satellite imagery suggested this could have been a meteor entering Earth&#8217;s atmosphere, as it appears the fireball was detected around the Cleveland area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Here&#8217;s more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2026\/03\/17\/northeast-ohio-boom-meteor\/89196577007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:from USA TODAY;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;from USA TODAY&quot;}\" class=\"link \">from USA TODAY<\/a>: &#8220;The asteroid spotted on Tuesday was 6 feet in diameter and weighed about 7 tons. It traveled over 34 miles through the upper atmosphere before fragmenting 30 miles over Valley City, north of Medina County, Ohio.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Check out some videos of the fragmenting:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Incredible!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on For The Win: <a href=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/outdoors\/2026\/03\/18\/meteor-hit-cleveland-ohio-videos\/89207062007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Meteor hit Cleveland, Ohio? What we know so far;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Meteor hit Cleveland, Ohio? What we know so far&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Meteor hit Cleveland, Ohio? What we know so far<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You may have heard reports of booms in Ohio on Tuesday, and with that came further news that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49,48,4850,212360,212359,18102,6376,66],"class_list":["post-544657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cleveland","tag-loud-boom","tag-medina-county","tag-national-weather-service","tag-ohio","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}