According to a tweet from the National Weather Service in Cleveland, the fireball and boom was the result of a meteor that crashed somewhere in Northeast Ohio.

A likely meteorite crash shook numerous homes in Ohio and lit up the sky above numerous Northeast states on Tuesday morning, according to the National Weather Service. People in numerous areas, including Richmond,

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Was it thunder? A falling tree? Maybe an earthquake? Nobody was quite sure what to make of the nerve-rattling sound until the National Weather Service reported that a meteor apparently crashed through the atmosphere,

Meteor’s fiery passage through the atmosphere was captured by a space-based lightning mapper.

There were more than 2,800 reports of sightings of the meteorite across parts of Europe

That’s going to leave a dent.

A meteor caused a loud boom heard across the Ohio Valley on March 17, but a meteor strike in the mid-Atlantic seems unlikely.