A 7-ton, 1.83-meter-wide monster, traveling at over 72,000 km/h for more than 55 kilometers during a trek across Ohio and Pennsylvania, between Lake Erie and the city of Valley City, fragmented above this area.
“We have no official reports indicating that anything touched the ground,” explained Brian Mitchell, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service, to journalists from “Cleveland Magazine.” Therefore, it is possible that most of it burned up upon entering the atmosphere.
Witnesses reported the passing of the flying object: as it broke apart, the released energy caused a detonation heard for kilometers around, with vibrations felt all the way to Cleveland, about fifty kilometers from Valley City.
Reports from across the country indicate sightings of the event, with the American Meteor Society receiving reports from other states like Wisconsin and Illinois. “It really looks like a fireball, which means it’s a small asteroid,” explained Carl Hergenrother, executive director of the organization, to the Associated Press agency.
