Meteor Actually Flew Across New Jersey On Tuesday, NASA Says In Update

NORTH JERSEY — After residents in New Jersey and New York City reported seeing a fireball and hearing a boom on Tuesday morning, NASA has published an updated statement saying they believe a meteor flew across the Garden State. READ MORE: Meteor Or Earthquake? New Jersey Residents Report Shaking

The space agency posted late on Tuesday:

Update on "Daylight fireball over New York City this morning"

More eyewitness reports have been posted - we have double what we had before and the adds have made a big difference in the trajectory. We now have the meteor originating over New York City and moving west into New Jersey. Speed has bumped up a bit to 38,000 miles per hour.

Also, many folks are under the impression that NASA tracks everything in space ... We do not (actually cannot) track things this small at significant distances from the Earth, so the only time we know about them is when they hit the atmosphere and generate a meteor or a fireball. Also, NASA watches the natural stuff; the Department of Defense keeps track of satellites and orbital debris. We thank the American Meteor Society for providing the eyewitness accounts.

Residents around the state began posting on social media on Tuesday that they felt shaking and wondered if it was an earthquake like the one in April.

There were other sources of noise on Tuesday morning. The police in Little Egg Harbor posted, "Activity at the Warren Grove Air to Ground Range will take place today between the hours of 10am and 11am. Expect to hear sounds relating to military weapons activity during that time."

Here are the reports about the meteor sent to the American Meteor Society from witnesses. Six of them gave the time as 11:17 a.m.

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