A meteor approximately 3 feet wide entered the atmosphere over the New Hampshire-Massachusetts border on Saturday and fragmented at 2:06 pm local time at an altitude of 40 miles, releasing energy equivalent to 300 tons of TNT. The event produced a sonic boom heard across Massachusetts and Rhode Island and was recorded by NOAA's GOES-19 satellite, with NASA confirming it as a natural object unrelated to meteor showers or space debris. Reports cite Deutsche Welle and Straits Times as primary sources, both rated left-center by media bias evaluators.