South Carolina was shaken by confusion and concern on May 28, after residents across the Midlands reported what sounded and felt like a massive explosion. Preliminary data pointed to an unusual atmospheric event in the Midlands,

A meteor expert says a Lexington home camera caught the likely culprit: an aircraft breaking the sound barrier, not a fireball from space.

At 5:24 p.m. May 28, a great many people in the Columbia area heard a loud boom and felt the structures they were in shake.

U.S. Geological Survey says the alarming sound that rocked the Boston area Saturday was a sonic boom caused by a meteor.

The United States Geological Survey has confirmed that the mysterious noise heard across Massachusetts Saturday afternoon, prompting rampant curiosity, was a sonic boom from a meteor.

Two bases say it wasn't them. NASA reported no meteor. A leading theory: an aircraft went supersonic, and the sound bounced for miles.

Experts said a suspected earthquake that rattled portions of South Carolina was actually a sonic boom of unknown origins.

A meteor traveling about 75,000 mph caused a loud boom across New England on Saturday, according to NASA. Officials say it broke apart high above the ground.

A meteor that exploded off the coast of Massachusetts set off a loud boom equivalent to 300 tons of TNT, NASA said.