{"id":529187,"date":"2026-03-17T17:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T17:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/529187\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T17:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T17:51:08","slug":"did-you-see-or-hear-it-meteor-causes-apparent-boom-as-it-streaks-across-ohio-valley-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/529187\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you see or hear it? Meteor causes apparent boom as it streaks across Ohio Valley sky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A meteor was caught on camera streaking across the sky in Pittsburgh early Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

PITTSBURGH \u2014 A meteor was caught on camera streaking across the sky in Pittsburgh<\/a> early Tuesday.\u00a0The video was taken by an eagle-eyed employee of the National Weather Service office in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

The meteor appeared to cause a loud boom that could be heard across parts of the Ohio Valley, according to the NWS office in Cleveland<\/a>, as it made its fiery journey through the Earth<\/a>‘s atmosphere<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There were no immediate reports of damage.<\/p>\n

ATTENTION SKYWATCHERS: LOOK OUT FOR HEIGHTENED METEOR ACTIVITY<\/a><\/p>\n

According to NASA, most meteors smaller than a football field break up as they hurtle through the atmosphere and generally less than 5 percent of the original object makes it down to the ground.<\/p>\n

\"NWS <\/p>\n

NWS employee captures video of meteor over Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

(Jared Rackley\/NWS Pittsburgh \/ NOAA)<\/p>\n

WATCH: RARE METEOR EXPLOSION CAUGHT ON CAMERA<\/a><\/p>\n

Meteors travel through the sky at tens of thousands of miles per hour \u2014 well above the speed of sound \u2014 their altitude and size dictate whether a sonic boom can be heard on the Earth’s surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A meteor was caught on camera streaking across the sky in Pittsburgh early Tuesday.\u00a0 PITTSBURGH \u2014 A meteor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[29407,6632,3234,79,193,953,230006,25,238031,1154],"class_list":["post-529187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-atmosphere","tag-outdoors","tag-pennsylvania","tag-science","tag-space","tag-space-weather","tag-stay22","tag-us","tag-us-regions","tag-viral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}