Officials with the American Meteor Society and NASA say a double boom heard in multiple states Saturday afternoon was a 3-foot meteor entering the atmosphere near the Massachusetts and New Hampshire border. Police and fire agencies received reports of buildings shaking. NASA officials confirmed that the meteor was natural material, not a satellite or space debris.
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