Many folks might have heard a large boom just after 2:00 p.m. this afternoon. With the nor’easter going on, I thought it was actually a tree going down in the backyard.
Once social media started lighting up with everybody hearing it from New York City all the way up into Southern New England obviously it’s not an individual tree.
The flash density product really shows this anomalous “flash” which is pretty distinctive of a bolide/meteor reentry. east of Boston. This is the likely source of the loud boom/explosion. pic.twitter.com/ka5b9KfiQ7
— Nick Stewart (@NStewWX) May 30, 2026
There’s a product from NOAA which is used to measure lightning which also can pick up the energy that a meteor burning up in the atmosphere would produce. A loop of this product right around 2:00 p.m. shows high levels of energy being picked up in Cape Cod Bay likely as that meteor was burning up at high levels of the atmosphere above us. It’s just a reminder we are just a floating Rock in the middle of the vastness of space and anything can happen…