USGS Confirms 3-Foot Meteor Caused Massachusetts Sonic Boom

10 articles · Updated · Boston Herald · May 30

USGS said the 2:05 p.m. blast heard across Massachusetts was a widely felt sonic boom from a suspected bolide, resolving hours of speculation that the shaking might have been an earthquake.
The American Meteor Society said a meteor about 3 feet wide entered the atmosphere near the New Hampshire-Massachusetts border north of Boston, producing reports of a double boom, ground shaking and a daytime fireball.
Analysts including meteorologist Nick Stewart said satellite data showed an anomalous flash east of Boston that did not match thunderstorms, reinforcing the meteor explanation.
Emergency officials said reports poured in from eastern Massachusetts, Rhode Island and southern New Hampshire, but no related police or fire emergencies were identified and no public safety threat was known.
USGS called the event rare because most sonic booms are not felt on land; experts said the meteor likely burned up, and any surviving fragments would probably have fallen into the ocean.

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