A monster of 7 tons and 1.83 meters in diameter, traveling at over 72,000 km/h for more than 55 kilometers during a journey through Ohio and Pennsylvania, between Lake Erie and the town of Valley City. It was above this territory that the meteor fragmented.
“We have no official report indicating that anything touched the ground,” explained Brian Mitchell, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service, to journalists from “Cleveland Magazine.” “So it is possible that most of it burned up upon entering the atmosphere.”
Witnesses were plentiful during the passage of the flying object: as it fragmented, the released energy caused a detonation heard for kilometers around and the vibrations were felt as far as Cleveland, about fifty kilometers from Valley City.
Reports have come in from across the country, with the American Meteor Society receiving reports from other states such as Wisconsin and Illinois: “This one really looks like a fireball, which means it’s a small asteroid,” explained the organization’s executive director, Carl Hergenrother, to the Associated Press agency.
