Nearby residents flooded social media with concerned posts about the startling sound <\/a>on Tuesday morning. One X user described<\/a> hearing \u201cthe loudest boom\u201d in northeastern Ohio, while another user compared<\/a> it to \u201cthunder or [a] jet engine misfiring loudly.\u201d <\/p>\n As these reports rolled in, National Weather Service forecasters in Cleveland jumped on the case. Their office found<\/a> that the latest imagery \u201cdoes suggest that the boom was a result of a meteor.\u201d <\/p>\n Forecasters in Pittsburgh also shared their analysis<\/a>, along with a video<\/a> of the meteor recorded by an employee.<\/p>\n \u201cWe’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,\u201d the agency\u2019s Pittsburgh office wrote on X.<\/a><\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n A National Weather Service employee captured footage of the meteor falling Tuesday morning (National Weather Service Pittsburgh)<\/p>\n Brian Mitchell, an observing program leader for the National Weather Service\u2019s Cleveland office, told The Independent his office heard the boom around 9 a.m. local time. <\/p>\n He said forecasters used geostationary lightning mapping, which can detect \u201cquick flashes in the atmosphere,\u201d according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cIt generated a flash, which showed up as a lightning flash on this particular map,\u201d Mitchell explained.<\/p>\n \u201cThe speed of an object like that \u2014 it’s similar to a military aircraft or something like that flying above the speed of sound, causing a sonic boom,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n While it\u2019s likely the meteor burned up as it entered the atmosphere, Mitchell expects some people will still be on the hunt for fragments. <\/p>\n \u201cThere could be some fragments in places, but we don’t know that at this point,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Several witnesses in northeastern Ohio told Cleveland.com<\/a> the boom caused their homes to shake. <\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n Video taken from a surveillance camera shows the suspected meteor falling through the sky in Olmsted Falls, Ohio (Olmsted Falls City Schools)<\/p>\n One resident in Lakewood, a suburb of Cleveland, told the outlet the sound was \u201creally loud and intense, like an explosion.\u201d Another witness in nearby Strongsville reportedly described it as a \u201clong explosion\u201d that seemed to \u201cecho for probably a good 30 seconds or more.\u201d<\/p>\n Police in Avon, Ohio, even issued a statement after receiving multiple reports about the blast.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you do not have an emergency or any specific information about the source of this, please do not call 911 or our dispatch line as we are inundated with calls right now,\u201d the Avon Police Department said on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-481535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-17-at-1-05-32-PM.png\")
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