At 12:56 p.m. UTC on March 17, 2026, a rock roughly six feet across and weighing an estimated seven tons slammed into the atmosphere above Ohio at 39,200 mph. The flash was bright enough to see in ...

A large 7-ton meteor struck near the Cleveland, Ohio, area, on March 17, 2026, after fragmenting in the air, according to NASA. "A very bright daylight fireball was observed by witnesses from the ...