Meteor above New England created loud boom: NASA

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[00:00:02]This was the sound heard by thousands across New England Saturday afternoon.

[00:00:06]NASA confirming to ABC News that sonic boom shaking homes from Massachusetts to New Hampshire was a fireball traveling at roughly 75,000 mph that fragmented midair 40 miles high.

[00:00:21]>> Meteorological explosion in West Peabody. We're getting calls. I heard it and felt it, but no idea where it came from.

[00:00:28]>> I mean, it literally felt like someone was slamming all our doors in the house at once.

[00:00:31]>> Manny Corraro says seconds after he heard the boom his entire house began to rumble.

[00:00:38]>> You can see in the footage that I provided, um you can see like the physical shaking of the cameras.

[00:00:42]Whatever that shockwave load was was enough to to literally move things.

[00:00:46]>> NASA says the fireball was a natural object and not a reentry of space debris or a satellite, adding the energy released at breakup is estimated to be equivalent to about 300 tons of TNT.

[00:01:01]>> Gio Benitez, ABC News, New York.