Fox Nation host Abby Hornacek has the details of the rare event on Bill Hemmer Reports
A fireball flashed through the night sky in New England on Sunday, releasing the energy of around 440 pounds of TNT.
NASA Meteor Watch reported on Monday that as residents witnessed the meteor streaking over Vermont and Massachusetts, the space rock fragmented violently, producing a pressure wave that rattled buildings and generated the sound heard by those near the trajectory.
Although the agency had initially believed the meteor which was likely a fragment of an asteroid to have been moving at a rate of 47,000 miles per hour when it appeared at around 5:38 p.m. ET, further analysis slowed that rate down to 42,000 miles per hour.
Fireball Flies Over Vermont, Other Parts of Northeast at Over 47,000 Mph
On 3/8/21 at 6:19 AM EST
A fireball zoomed across the sky on Sunday, according to eyewitnesses in the northeastern United States and parts of Canada.
The American Meteor Society (AMS) said on Facebook it had received more than 100 reports of a fireball being seen over Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and the Canadian province of Québec at around 5:38 p.m. ET on March 7.
NASA Meteor Watch said it had also received reports of the fireball, with analysis showing that the meteor occurred over northern Vermont, first appearing at an altitude of 52 miles above Mount Mansfield State Forest in the north of the state.