{"id":997356,"date":"2026-06-01T01:21:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T01:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/997356\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T01:21:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T01:21:17","slug":"nasa-releases-new-terrifying-details-as-meteor-explodes-near-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/997356\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA releases new terrifying details as meteor explodes near Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASA has now confirmed a meteor was travelling at 75,000 miles per hour (more than 120,000 km\/h) at an altitude of 40 miles when it broke apart on Saturday May 30<\/p>\n

02:55, 31 May 2026Updated 05:04, 31 May 2026<\/p>\n

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(Image: NOAA GOES-19 satellite)<\/p>\n

A meteor crashing toward Earth exploded over the north-eastern United States on Saturday with a blast equivalent to 300 tons of TNT., NASA <\/a>said.<\/p>\n

The fireball broke up over northeastern Massachusetts and southeastern New Hampshire just after 2pm (1806 GMT), the US space agency\u2019s deputy news chief Jennifer Dooren told AFP in a statement.<\/p>\n

NASA Space Alerts tweeted: “Eyewitnesses in New England and @NOAA<\/a> \u2019s GOES-19 satellite reported a bright fireball on Saturday, May 30, at 2:06 p.m EDT accompanied by a loud noise. The meteor appears to have fragmented at an altitude of 40 miles over northeast MA and southeast NH. The energy released at breakup is estimated to be equivalent to about 300 tons of TNT, which accounts for the loud noise. Eyewitness accounts supplied by the American Meteor Society.”<\/p>\n

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Some X users questioned the fireball sighting, one said: “There are plenty of people who heard and felt it. Pretty skeptical anyone actually saw a bright fireball. Who are these eyewitnesses? Any videos?” Another said: “Due to the clouds, not able see fire ball, but sure as heck heard it.”<\/p>\n

While others were in total shock and wrote: “I saw this while traveling with a camper. I thought it was a missle\/nuke.”<\/p>\n

The American Meteorological Society says on its website that meteors move at extremely high speeds, and larger rocks that survive longer in the atmosphere can sometimes produce a sonic boom.<\/p>\n

Witnessing a meteor during the day is extremely rare. While thousands of meteors enter Earth\u2019s atmosphere daily, sunlight usually hides them, according to National Geographic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The American Meteor Society (AMS) said the booms were caused by a meteor about 3ft (nearly 1 metre) wide.<\/p>\n

Several people filed reports with the US Geological Survey, registering the shaking they felt with the National Earthquake Information Center, agency spokesman Steve Sobie said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA has now confirmed a meteor was travelling at 75,000 miles per hour (more than 120,000 km\/h) at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":997357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8],"tags":[36186,874,8135,70,16,15],"class_list":["post-997356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-meteors","tag-nasa","tag-noaa","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116672232802412229","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/997357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}