{"id":188815,"date":"2026-04-07T21:25:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/188815\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T21:25:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:25:31","slug":"news-12-the-bronx-615","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/188815\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | The Bronx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A meteor was sighted in the skies above the tri-state area around 2:30 p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The American Meteor Society confirmed several reports of the fireball being seen over the state from 2:33 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>Video shared with News 12 from Forked River, New Jersey, shows a small fireball quickly streaking through the sky.<\/p>\n<p>Various social media users remarked they heard a loud boom accompanying the meteor. According to News 12 Lead Meteorologist Dave Curren, an object must be traveling as fast as the speed of sound to make an audible &#8216;boom.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>As it enters earth&#8217;s atmosphere, a meteor travels at an average speed of about 120,000 mph, far surpassing the necessary 767 mph needed to break the sound barrier, says Curren. <\/p>\n<p>To generate a sound audible on the earth&#8217;s surface, a meteor typically has to survive the atmosphere and travel as low as 15 miles off the ground for people below to hear the sonic &#8216;boom.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>(Video courtesy of Brittany Wilhelmy)<\/p>\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/d05cb5ed-0aec-4070-bef9-4abac2036dc4.0000000.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n\tBrittany Wilhelmy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A meteor was sighted in the skies above the tri-state area around 2:30 p.m. Tuesday. The American Meteor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,18990,40749,35950,75729,75730,9,24,63,129,131,130,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-188815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-fireball","10":"tag-meteor","11":"tag-meteor-shower","12":"tag-meteorite","13":"tag-meteors","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-the-bronx","18":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","19":"tag-the-bronx-news","20":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188815","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=188815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}