{"id":141353,"date":"2026-03-18T04:02:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T04:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/141353\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T04:02:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T04:02:22","slug":"meteor-streaks-through-sky-causes-loud-boom-in-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/141353\/","title":{"rendered":"Meteor streaks through sky, causes loud boom in Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmmuoyl8e003101v2heqmwz9f@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">The Weather Service says it is receiving reports from across western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio of a loud boom and a fireball in the sky.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmmuoypee000i357x4tmuyq49@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">NWS Pittsburgh says satellite data suggests it was possibly a meteor entering the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmmuoypga000j357xv1m27ohi@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">The Weather Service then posted video from one of its employees of the meteor streaking across the Pittsburgh sky.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The National Weather Service captured a meteor in the sky this morning&#8230; if you heard a loud boom, this is why! The meteor streaked through the sky in Pittsburgh, into Eastern Ohio. \ud83d\udcf9 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NWSPittsburgh?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@NWSPittsburgh<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zr5DTzSvE9\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/zr5DTzSvE9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 100.1 FM and AM 1020 KDKA (@KDKARadio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KDKARadio\/status\/2033907980085674129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 17, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmmuoyphm000k357xdtmkmviw@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">The meteor traveled east, reportedly landing in the Cleveland area.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmmuoypit000l357xw0fdhho8@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">No injuries have been reported.<\/p>\n<p>\n          Featured Image Photo Credit: National Weather Service Pittsburgh\n        <\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Weather Service says it is receiving reports from across western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio of a loud&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-141353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-pittsburgh","9":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","10":"tag-pittsburgh-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141353","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=141353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}