Meteorite Boom Rattles Cleveland, Fragments Sought

0:00On March 17th, a bright fireball streaked across the sky over Cleveland on Tuesday morning around 9 a.m. producing a powerful boom that rattled, homes and surprise residents across the area. Reports of the event reached the American Meteor Society from as far away as Wisconsin to Maryland, confirming it was visible over a huge stretch of. The Midwest and East Coast locals described the noise like a massive explosion, with vibrations strong enough that even national weather service staff in Cleveland felt the ground shake from their office. Experts say this was likely a meteorite, roughly the size of a softball or basketball or bigger, slamming into the atmosphere at tens of miles per. Second, definitely not a satellite re-entering given its intense brightness. Videos of the spectacle are now flooding online, and while most of the object burned up, teams are on the lookout for any small surviving fragments. That might turn up soon.