Americans and Canadians from the Great Lakes across Niagara Falls to Cape Cod spotted two meteors blazing through the Earth’s atmosphere within two days of each other, according to NASA.
One was spotted streaking across the skies of New England just after 2 p.m. ET on May 30, and the other was seen over the Great Lakes and the American Midwest just after 10:40 p.m. ET on June 1.
The space agency was able to confirm on June 1 that a large meteor came blazing through the atmosphere at supersonic speeds and exploded over New England at 2:06 p.m. ET on May 30.
The meteor was roughly 5 feet in diameter and had a mass of 5.6 metric tons. It entered the Earth’s atmosphere traveling 42,000 mph, and streaked across the skies of New England in a southeasterly direction for 26 miles before breaking up into fragments 31 miles above Massachusetts’s Cape Cod Bay….