Natural Meteor Explosion Causes Powerful Sonic Booms Over New England States During Saturday

A large meteor disintegrated over the northeastern US on Saturday, releasing energy equivalent to 300 tons of TNT.The resulting sonic booms rattled buildings from Delaware to Montreal, but officials confirmed no seismic activity or physical damage occurred.NASA experts verified the fireball was a natural occurrence unrelated to any space debris or man-made satellite reentry.Experts at the American Meteor Society noted the object fragmented in the atmosphere before vanishing above the Atlantic Ocean.
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