A National Weather Service in Pittsburgh employee, Jared Rackley, caught a meteor sailing over the Pittsburgh area on Tuesday morning. (NWS Pittsburgh via X)
The western sky — and social media — lit up Tuesday morning when a meteor streaked over Western Pennsylvania skies and into the atmosphere over northeast Ohio.
Jared Rackley, an employee with the National Weather Service in Pittsburgh, caught video of the large fireball as the suspected meteoroid entered the atmosphere and fell to earth. In response to comments posted to X, the NWS in Cleveland confirmed that the bright streak and loud boom Ohio residents heard was probably caused by a meteor…