NASA has revealed what really happened when a scary “double boom” hit Massachusetts and nearby states yesterday afternoon.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, residents of Massachusetts and Rhode Island heard a mysterious loud boom on Saturday, prompting a flood of 911 calls.

One Cambridge resident captured the loud boom on a dashcam.

Explosion sound heard in Boston Cambridge MA registered as an impact on my dashcam. You can hear a double bang. #explosion #boston #cambridge not a scientist, but it sounds like a sonicboom to me. Leaves on the tree don’t move at all. Might be a clue pic.twitter.com/CoQBy1Oc0g

— Stanley Fung (@stanleyfung4) May 30, 2026

The boom was heard as far north as New Hampshire.

I’m way up in New Hampshire but about 15 minutes ago I heard an aircraft that sounded like an Air Force aircraft go overhead, Sonic boom maybe?

— Granite Stater (@Granite_Stater1) May 30, 2026

One local meteorologist theorized that the explosion heard in Boston was a significant bolide/meteor entering the atmosphere.

Now, NASA has revealed that the cause of the massive explosion was a meteor that broke apart high in the ​atmosphere.

According to NASA, the meteor fragmented across northeast MA and southeast NH.

NASA added that the American Meteor Society provided eyewitness accounts.

“Eyewitnesses in New England and @NOAA’s GOES-19 satellite reported a bright fireball on Saturday, May 30, at 2:06 p.m EDT accompanied by a loud noise,” the post reads. “The meteor appears to have fragmented at an altitude of 40 miles over northeast MA and southeast NH.”

“The energy released at breakup is estimated to be equivalent to about 300 tons of TNT, which accounts for the loud noise,” the post continues.

“Eyewitness accounts supplied by the American Meteor Society.”

#MeteorSighting: Eyewitnesses in New England and @NOAA’s GOES-19 satellite reported a bright fireball on Saturday, May 30, at 2:06 p.m EDT accompanied by a loud noise. The meteor appears to have fragmented at an altitude of 40 miles over northeast MA and southeast NH. The energy…

— NASA Space Alerts (@NASASpaceAlerts) May 30, 2026

Folks in the area can feel reassured that such an event was a natural occurrence and not caused by a sinister foreign government or a UFO. But we may not get so lucky the next time.

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