Reports of an explosion from people across New England on Saturday afternoon sent police agencies scrambling to understand what caused a double boom that shook buildings in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. People in several states posted on social media that they felt the buildings they were in shaking, and several videos on X captured what sounded like two quick booms, with no fire, smoke, or other visual causes, the AP reports. Callers to WBZ reporting a loud explosion around Boston, and as well as in Ipswich, Massachusetts, and Johnston, Rhode Island. The American Meteor Society said that the booms heard about 2:30pm were caused by a meteor about 3 feet wide entering the atmosphere around the New Hampshire border with Massachusetts, north of Boston.
Robert Lunsford, the fireball program monitor with the society, said the group received dozens of reports from Delaware to Montreal with people either hearing the double boom, feeling the ground shake or seeing the fireball—which he said looks like a shooting star in the daytime sky. "It was definitely bigger than a normal fireball, about a yard wide," he said. But Lunsford said it's unlikely the meteor hit the ground. "We would need more information about the trajectory the speed and other aspects to know for sure if it hit the ground, but if it didn't burn up, then it would have landed in the ocean," he said. "Most of them do burn up before they hit the ground."
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