{"id":246496,"date":"2026-05-28T15:57:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/246496\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T15:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:57:16","slug":"how-rare-is-it-to-see-a-meteor-in-western-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/246496\/","title":{"rendered":"How rare is it to see a meteor in Western New York?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ROCHESTER, N.Y. \u2014 Did you see the videos on social media of what appears to be a meteor falling from the sky in Buffalo?  <\/p>\n<p>A meteor is a space rock that enters Earth\u2019s atmosphere at high speeds and burns up. Meteors aren\u2019t exceptionally rare. However, it is rare for a meteor to be large enough and penetrate deep enough into the Earth\u2019s atmosphere to create a sonic boom. That\u2019s what people reported hearing in Buffalo, which some misook for an explosion. <\/p>\n<p>First Alert Meteorologist Nate Morris explains what a meteor is and what people saw in Buffalo on Wednesday morning. See his report in the video in this story.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/tag\/western-new-york\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Western New York<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/tag\/meteor\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">meteor<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/tag\/buffalo\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">buffalo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROCHESTER, N.Y. \u2014 Did you see the videos on social media of what appears to be a meteor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[113,40749,9,24,55,54,56,5178],"class_list":["post-246496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-buffalo","tag-meteor","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-western-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246496","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=246496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}