According to a tweet from the National Weather Service in Cleveland, the fireball and boom was the result of a meteor that crashed somewhere in Northeast Ohio.

A likely meteorite crash shook numerous homes in Ohio and lit up the sky above numerous Northeast states on Tuesday morning, according to the National Weather Service. People in numerous areas, including Richmond,

A large meteor crashed through the sound barrier above northern Ohio on Tuesday morning, producing a large fireball and what local residents described as an extremely loud “boom.” According to various eyewitness reports,

But within hours, the details became clearer. It wasn’t necessarily a sonic boom that jolted our senses, as the National Weather Service in Cleveland surmised early on, but rather, according to NASA, the explosion of a 7-ton asteroid about six feet in diameter that broke apart over Greater Cleveland.

Skies across Northeast Ohio lit up with a fireball Tuesday morning, caused by an asteroid weighing about seven tons.

If an object were to break into the Earth's atmosphere, it's likely to be one of two things: space junk or a rare meteorite.