A meteor entering the atmosphere near the New Hampshire-Massachusetts border caused a double boom that shook buildings in New England on Saturday.
BOSTON — Reports of a loud explosion from people across New England sent police agencies and others scrambling to understand what caused a double boom that shook buildings in Massachusetts and Rhode Island on Saturday.
The American Meteor Society said Saturday that the boom was actually a meteor about 3 feet wide entering the atmosphere around the New Hampshire border with Massachusetts, north of Boston.
Robert Lunsford, the Fireball Program Monitor with the society,
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