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MASSIVE Boom Heard In Multiple States Believed To Be 17,000-Pound Meteor
An enormous boom reported in northeast Ohio was caused by a 17,000-pound meteor that entered the atmosphere and broke apart over Medina County, multiple outlets reported.
People throughout the area reportedly told local media about a “large explosion” lasting several seconds and causing buildings to “shake.”
Residents in Pennsylvania and New York also heard the “thunderous boom.”
“NASA has confirmed a 6-foot, 17,000-pound meteor traveled 44,000 miles per hour over northeast Ohio,” FOX 8 News stated.
“It was 50 miles above Lake Erie when the first flash was detected,” it added.
A thunderous boom heard and felt widely across northeastern Ohio and parts of Pennsylvania was likely the result of a meteor. https://t.co/6uBisbwxr9
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 17, 2026
CBS News shared further:
NASA said eyewitnesses from 10 states, Washington, D.C. and the Canadian province of Ontario reported seeing the “bright fireball” moments before 9 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time. The National Weather Service office in Pittsburgh shared an employee’s video of the meteor arcing across the sky.
Witnesses in Ohio, New York and Pennsylvania also reported hearing a loud boom or explosion sound, according to CBS affiliate WOIO. One person told the station that the boom shook their whole house.
NASA said the sound occurred when the asteroid fragmented, “resulting in a pressure wave” that reached the ground. The chunk of space rock unleashed an amount of energy equivalent to 250 tons of TNT when it fragmented, NASA said. The space agency confirmed the boom would have been loud enough to shake some homes.
The National Weather Service identified the item as a meteor earlier Tuesday. Any small space object that enters Earth’s atmosphere is described as a meteor. A weather service instrument called a geostationary lightning mapper identified the meteor. The device detects quick flashes in the atmosphere and is usually used to continuously map lightning strikes, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It can also identify meteors, which are bright and flash similarly to lightning.
“One of our employees, Jared Rackley, caught this morning’s meteor on camera from the Pittsburgh area,” NWS Pittsburgh wrote.
One of our employees, Jared Rackley, caught this morning's meteor on camera from the Pittsburgh area. pic.twitter.com/2LdqOpChti
— NWS Pittsburgh (@NWSPittsburgh) March 17, 2026
Additional footage below:
A "boom" heard in Ohio and Pennsylvania on Tuesday morning appears to have been from a meteor, the National Weather Service in Cleveland said. https://t.co/tQalORrsep pic.twitter.com/MmBK68belm
— ABC News (@ABC) March 17, 2026
More from Cleveland 19 News:
In Strongsville, Kerry Woloszynek said the boom shook her entire house.
“It was just like a boom,” she said. “It was just all at once and shook the house.”
Kerry said the force knocked items from shelves inside her home.
“They like started leaning forward and all of this stuff just started leaning off of them,” she said. “Like I’m picking up glass. Like what was that?”
She said her first thought was that something had struck her house.
“You go from did something fall on my house. Was there a home explosion,” she said.
Hope Intihar said her house shook as well near Cleveland State’s campus.
“I heard it, like my house shook. It literally felt like a car hit my house. It freaked me out,” Intihar said. “I thought my dog like knocked over a trash can or something heavy.”
She said she looked out her windows after finding nothing inside to explain the shaking.
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