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A thundering boom that rocked parts of upstate New York on Wednesday afternoon is now believed to have been caused by an unusually large meteor hurtling through Earth's atmosphere.

The fireball was reportedly seen in ten states.

The American Meteor Society says it wasn't aliens, but you can draw your own conclusions about that.

The meteor was streaking around 6:35 p.m.

Some people claimed to have captured video of the meteor passing over Manhattan last night, except the video below is actually from Virginia. But hey, it's still a cool video!

Something just flew over NYC: was it a meteor?

NASA says about 300-500 kilotons of energy was released by the meteor's explosion; the nuclear bomb at Hiroshima released 15 kilotons.

Either a meteorite or an exploding fireball streaked through the sky over Russia early Friday morning before exploding in a flash, damaging buildings, and injuring many.

Space lovers, grab a sleeping bag and prepare to stay up all night!

Daytime Fireball Map (via), and a still from Deep Impact Did