A fiery object disintegrated as it fell off the Boston coast, causing sonic booms heard across Massachusetts and reports of sightings along the Northeast.

The New England event came just days after a bright meteor was reported over Western New York during the early morning hours of May 27.

NASA said the energy released when the meteor broke up was equivalent to about 300 tons of TNT.

According to Nasa, the meteor released the equivalent to about 300 tons of TNT when it broke up.

For a few seconds on Saturday afternoon, people across the northeastern U.S. heard a loud explosion and felt buildings shake. It turned out that massive boom was not an earthquake. According to NASA, ...

According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), it was a "widely felt sonic boom from a suspected bolide".

The sound many people heard, NASA confirmed, was a sonic boom caused by a meteor breaking apart when traveling through ...

A meteor streaking across the skies over the northeastern United States exploded with energy equivalent to about 300 tons of TNT on Saturday, according to NASA.

NASA shared an initial analysis of a 5-foot-wide fireball meteor that exploded in the sky over the northeastern U.S. on Saturday, May 30.