An extremely rare "daytime fireball" meteor was recently spotted streaking across sunny blue skies over the eastern U.S. after a fridge-size space rock exploded and triggered a powerful sonic boom.

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A meteor has rocked the northeastern United States. The fireball was detected over northeastern Massachusetts and southeastern New Hampshire at around 2:06 p.m. local time on Saturday, May 30, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Experts say a suspected meteor behind Tuesday morning’s boom over Northeast Ohio would have burned up in the atmosphere, potentially exploding and creating a boom that carried across ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA says a 5-foot meteor caused the massive sonic boom heard across the Northeast on Saturday | ©Image Credit: Unsplash / Tasos ...

May 30 (UPI) --A meteor exploded just off the coast of Massachusetts, causing a loud boom, Saturday afternoon. Locals reported on social media that they heard a loud blast at about 2 p.m. EDT, and ...

A meteor caused a loud boom that was heard across much of the East Coast on Saturday when it entered the atmosphere and exploded just north of Boston, news outlets report. The boom shook buildings in ...