{"id":469348,"date":"2026-05-31T15:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T15:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/469348\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T15:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T15:40:08","slug":"loud-boom-across-heard-new-england-caused-by-meteor-fireball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/469348\/","title":{"rendered":"Loud boom across heard New England caused by meteor fireball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">A bright fireball streaked across parts of New England in the US on Saturday afternoon, accompanied by a loud boom, after a meteor broke apart high in the atmosphere, NASA said, citing satellite imagery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The event occurred at about 2:06 p.m. local time and was detected by eyewitnesses and NOAA&#8217;s GOES-19 satellite, NASA said in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The meteor fragmented at an altitude of roughly 40 miles (64 km) over northeastern Massachusetts and southeastern New Hampshire, the agency added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">NASA estimated that the energy released at breakup was equivalent to about 300 tons of TNT, which helped explain the loud noise reported across the region.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bright fireball streaked across parts of New England in the US on Saturday afternoon, accompanied by a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[85,46,5117,14014,3442,88993,141,145],"class_list":["post-469348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-meteor-shower","tag-meteorite","tag-nasa","tag-new-england","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}