Meteor Causes Tremendous Boom Over Parts Of PA

PENNSYLVANIA — A meteor likely was the cause of a large boom felt over parts of Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio Tuesday morning.

The National Weather Service in Pittsburgh said it received reports from numerous people across Western Pennsylvania of the tremendous noise and a fireball in the sky.

A weather service employee caught the cause of the boom and the weather service posted it.

The National Weather Service office in Cleveland also agreed that a meteor caused the boom.

NASA's website defines a Geostationary Lightning Mapper, or commonly called a GLM, as "a single-channel, near-infrared optical transient detector that can detect the momentary changes in an optical scene, indicating the presence of lightning."