On July 15th, a morning fireball traveling at 34,000 miles per hour streaked over the Statue of Liberty in New York.
A video captured by a Nest security camera near Wayne, New Jersey, showed a brilliant white beam of light speeding across the sky in the early hours of the morning.
On Tuesday, NASA said that the fireball had fallen at an 18-degree angle before exploding 29 miles above Manhattan.
According to a Facebook post from NASA’s Meteoroid Environments Office, small rocks, like the one responsible for the fireball, are only around one foot in diameter and cannot survive the journey to Earth in their complete form.
Skywatchers who belong to the American Meteor Society submitted two videos. The organization has already recorded scores of potential eyewitnesses to the meteor, a few of whom were jolted by its tremors and loud noise. A video captures the fireball as it swept over the hilly terrain of Northford, Connecticut, looking like a shooting star in the middle of the day. It offers higher-resolution views of the phenomenon.
According to NASA’s Meteoroid Environments Office, the fireball has been reported over the tri-state region, which includes Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware, and Maryland. Many government organizations, including the Meteoroid Environments Office of NASA and the National Earthquake Information Center of the United States Geological Surveys (USGS, have made efforts to determine the source of the explosion.
According to NASA, data points to a different interpretation, which might explain the tremors and noises recorded by the media and suggest that there was military activity during the fireball sighting.
In response to the witness accounts, Pentagon authorities have said that no US military sensor network, including NORAD, has detected anything.
The initial sighting of the daytime fireball was around 11:17 a.m. local time, near the Port of New York and New Jersey’s Greenville Yard, a freight train yard. Residents in the path of the fireball reported physical rattling and shaking, but the USGS found no indication of an earthquake.
