Meteor Triggers 5 a.m. Sonic Boom in Western New York, Shaking Homes

3 articles · Updated · WGRZ.com · May 28

Around 5 a.m., a bright object streaked over Western New York and was followed by loud booms that residents said shook homes across the region.
Doorbell-camera video captured the glowing trail, and Buffalo Museum of Science astronomer Tim Collins said it was almost certainly a bolide — an exceptionally bright meteor burning up in Earth’s atmosphere.
The explosion-like sound was likely a sonic boom, Collins said, caused by the meteor traveling faster than the speed of sound as it disintegrated.
Several days of analysis are still needed to determine the meteor’s exact track, altitude and size.

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