{"id":141120,"date":"2026-03-17T22:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/141120\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T22:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:50:09","slug":"boom-heard-in-ohio-pennsylvania-may-have-been-from-meteor-national-weather-service-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/141120\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Boom&#8217; heard in Ohio, Pennsylvania may have been from meteor, National Weather Service says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jxTEW Poyse uieav lqtkC HkWF HfYhe kGyAC \">The NWS in Cleveland said imagery does suggest it was a meteor.<\/p>\n<p>ByEmily Shapiro  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ABCNews logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/origin-abcnews.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, March 17, 2026 7:36PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Video shows apparent meteor in Ohio, Pennsylvania\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">A &#8220;boom&#8221; heard in Ohio on Tuesday morning appears to have been from a meteor, the National Weather Service in Cleveland said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The NWS said imagery &#8220;does suggest that the boom was a result of a meteor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The National Weather Service in Pittsburgh released this image of an apparent meteor.\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR zFTjo hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/18725473_meteor-omg.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service in Pittsburgh released this image of an apparent meteor.<\/p>\n<p>National Weather Service in Pittsburgh<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The NWS in Pittsburgh said residents in western Pennsylvania also reported the loud &#8220;boom&#8221; and fireball in the sky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The NWS said one of its employees filmed the apparent meteor shooting across the sky in the Pittsburgh area.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ABC News Internet Ventures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NWS in Cleveland said imagery does suggest it was a meteor. ByEmily Shapiro Tuesday, March 17, 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64634,6780,856,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-141120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-64634","tag-abc-news","tag-national","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}