Residents in southern Texas felt the ground shake and heard what sounded like an explosion as a possible meteor entered the atmosphere on Wednesday, officials said.
Home surveillance videos shared by @disdikmark in McAllen, in southern Texas near the border with Mexico, show everything shake as a loud boom scares a bird and a chicken.
“Houston Air Traffic Control received reports from two aircrafts that they saw a meteorite west of McAllen,” Hidalgo County Sheriff Eddie Guerra tweeted Wednesday. “Where the exact point of impact is unknown. No reports of any damage in that area has been received.”
The National Weather Service reported NOAA satellites that observe lightning detected a signal that may have been the meteor entering the atmosphere.
“One of the satellite tools we use is the Geostationary Lightning Mapper & it measures lightning as observed from space. GLM detected a signal at 5:23 PM with no storms around,” the agency tweeted.
