{"id":166284,"date":"2026-03-17T15:41:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/166284\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T15:41:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:41:15","slug":"rare-daytime-meteor-seen-over-cleveland-ohio-with-boom-heard-as-far-away-as-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/166284\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare daytime meteor seen over Cleveland, Ohio, with boom heard as far away as New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A massive boom that shook northeast Ohio and was reportedly heard as far away as New York was the result of a rare daytime meteor, Pittsburgh\u2019s National Weather Service confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The fireball streaked across the sky just before 9 a.m., dramatic video posted online showed the meteor flare up as it entered the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38805305\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ohio-meteor-loud-boom-heard-nyc-comp.jpg\" alt=\"Meteor streaks across a blue sky over a town.\" class=\"wp-image-38805305\"  \/>A rare, daytime metor streaked across the sky in Ohio Tuesday \u2014 with a boom so loud it broke the sound barrier.<\/p>\n<p>Locals flocked to social media to report the boom was so powerful that it rattled their houses and even knocked pictures off walls.<\/p>\n<p>Meteorologist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland19.com\/2026\/03\/17\/multiple-reports-an-explosion-northeast-ohio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jeff Tanchak of 19 News<\/a> said the boom was the result of the meteor breaking the sound barrier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A massive boom that shook northeast Ohio and was reportedly heard as far away as New York was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[40749,9,11,10,1758,58],"class_list":["post-166284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-meteor","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-ohio","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}