NASA: Massive 'boom' heard from Ohio to Kentucky caused by exploding meteor [1:56]

YouTube ^ | March 17, 2026 | ABC News

[SunkenCiv]

A meteor nearly 6ft in diameter weighing roughly 7 tons broke apart above Ohio and was seen across 10 states. 

NASA: Massive 'boom' heard from Ohio to Kentucky caused by exploding meteor | 1:56 
ABC News | 19.5M subscribers | 137,427 views | March 17, 2026

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; bolide; catastrophism; kentucky; meteor; meteorite; meteorites; meteors; nasa; ohio; science

[SunkenCiv]

One of the interviewees, Dan Cook, on secreen for perhaps two seconds, is a great reason to watch this one.

[SunkenCiv]

• meteorite ohio kentucky 7 tons 2026 [Brave search]

[Texas Eagle]

I wanted to hear the boom. You promised me a loud boom.

[SunkenCiv]

😆

[SunkenCiv]

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• Strong mag. 5.8 Earthquake - Caribbean Sea, Provincia de Santiago de Cuba, 95 km east of Guantanamo, Cuba, on Monday, Mar 16, 2026, at 11:28 pm (GMT -5) [4:28 am Eastern Time Zone] [03/17/2026]

[Kudsman]

Where did it strike? It will be interesting to see if locals capture photos of the rock and the crater. Will the Feds quarantine the area?

[imardmd1]

It didn’t continue to earth in one piece, It just blew up into fragments that were scattered over a wide area.

[SunkenCiv]

NE Ohio, it’s in the video, can’t recall the name, if memory serves it starts with M.

[SunkenCiv]

I checked the transcript, “Madina”.

[SunkenCiv]

“NASA confirmed that a 7-ton asteroid, nearly 6 feet in diameter, entered Earth’s atmosphere over Lake Erie near Lorain, Ohio, around 8:57 a.m. on Tuesday, March 17, 2026, and fragmented over Valley City, Ohio, in Medina County.”

[Brave search results]

1919 bolide caused a surge of water up the channel in Grand Haven. Wikipedia kinda drops the ball on this and it isn’t worth the effort to try to edit in corrections. The account was in “Rain of Iron and Ice” back in the 1990s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1919_Michigan_Event

https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/john-s-lewis/302637/

[Salamander]

Everybody and their dog was out searching the massive area for meteorites.

[SMARTY]

"Where did it strike?" Right! The one piece of news about this that everyone wants to know, and they left it out!!

'Journalism' is dead!

[Psalm 73]

"I checked the transcript, “Madina”."

That would be, "funky cold Medina"...

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, the YT transcript generator has flaws. Medina County, and not spelled with an a, or rather, not with two a’s.

[equaviator]

There’s a lot of money in those rocks.

[BipolarBob]

Clymutt Chainz.

[OHPatriot]

I wonder if any of the chunks will have any markings that say “Made in China”

[imardmd1]

Yeah, get ‘em while they’re still hot!

[CopperTop]

"..I wanted to hear the boom. You promised me a loud boom.."

[equaviator]

No limit!