Residents across New England were left stunned after a powerful double boom rattled buildings and shook the ground, triggering reports to police and earthquake officials. The cause, however, came from above.

The USGS noted the event was a "widely felt sonic boom from a suspected bolide," referring to a meteor that explodes in the atmosphere.

The meteor streaked across the region around 2 p.m., according to NASA, hurtling into Earth’s atmosphere at a speed of roughly 75,000 miles per hour.

A CBS News meteorologist confirmed the sonic boom heard across neighborhoods in Massachusetts was indeed because of a meteor.

Attleboro area police departments and regional public safety dispatch centers fielded numerous calls from worried and curious residents about the sonic boom heard Saturday afternoon that was later det

How high did you jump when the boom from a meteor exploding in Massachusetts thundered across New England on Saturday, May 30 in the afternoon? Probably not as high as this dog. A thunderous boom was heard from Rhode Island to New Hampshire after NASA confirmed a meteor exploded over Cape Cod Bay.

On Saturday at around 2:06 pm ET, residents across northeastern United States witnessed a dazzling fireball streak across the sky, culminating in a powerful explosion over Cape Cod Bay. Captured on cameras and visible in satellite imagery,