Meteor explosion over New England triggers reports from Delaware to Montreal

On a quiet Saturday afternoon, the sky over New England briefly became a theater of cosmic consequence — a yard-wide rock from space, hurtling at 75,000 miles per hour, announced its end with a pair of thunderclaps heard from Delaware to Montreal. NASA confirmed the natural object fragmented some 40 miles above Massachusetts, releasing energy equal to 300 tons of TNT, rattling windows, triggering car alarms, and reminding a wide swath of humanity that the boundary between Earth and the wider universe is thinner than we tend to remember.