New England Daylight Fireball And Sonic Boom
[Original headline: Area residents report hearing sonic boom, seeing fireball]
NORTH CANAAN, Conn. (AP) Authorities found no evidence of a plane crash after receiving calls from Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and Vermont from people who heard a sonic boom or saw a fireball Saturday afternoon.
Police, firefighters, and airports received calls at about 2:30 p.m. on Saturday from people who described seeing a fireball in the sky or hearing a sonic boom and an explosion.
''One said it looked like a long metal item, and another said it looked like a piece of metal with a fireball,'' said a police dispatcher at Troop B, who refused to give her name.
David Paine, a state police spokesman in Massachusetts said officials believe it could have been a meteor.
''There were a number of calls for sighting of fireballs and sounds of sonic booms in Russell, Montgomery, Pittsfield and into New York state,'' said Lt. Paul C. Maloney, another spokesman for the Massachusetts state police. ''We did send an aircraft in the areas (where the sightings were reported) and they saw nothing at that time.''
The Federal Aviation Administration, which received calls from southern Vermont and western and central Massachusetts, said it had no reports of missing aircraft and had been told by the North American Aerospace Defense Command there were no military activities taking place.
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