The moment a fireball meteor hurtles over New York City at 35,000 mph, shaking skyscrapers, is captured on video

Two videos have emerged showing the flaming, 34,000-mph “daylight fireball” that flew over the Statue of Liberty in New York on Tuesday.

Video captured by a Nest security camera in Wayne, New Jersey, shows a shimmering white streak of light shooting across the morning sky, more than 50 miles (80 kilometers) away from the burning object as it disintegrates in Earth’s atmosphere.

NASA announced Tuesday that the “fireball” plummeted at an angle of just 18 degrees from vertical before “disintegrating 29 miles (47 kilometers) above downtown Manhattan.”

The two videos were submitted by amateur stargazers from the American Meteor Society. Dozens of possible witnesses to the meteor have now been recorded, some of whom are shaken by the earthquake-like rumble and the surprisingly loud “boom.”

The second video, recorded in Northford, Connecticut, shows more high-resolution footage of the fireball as it raced like a shooting star over wooded hills.

NASA Meteoroid Environments Office Director Bill Cooke previously thanked the association for collecting are public meteor observation data allowing the US space agency to make a “very rough determination of the meteor’s orbit.”

The American Meteor Society has issued a warning that the two new fireball videos, which were released on their official YouTube channel‘cannot be related to a fireball event.’

Both videos, along with a running total of 43 witness statementshowever, did coincide with the time (11:15 a.m. eastern time) and proximity of Thursday’s “fireball” event.

Trackers from the nonprofit organization, founded in 1911, have now mapped reports of the fireball across the tri-state area, from New Jersey, New York and Connecticut, to Rhode Island, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Maryland.

“It just struck me: a fireball shooting through the sky,” an eyewitness, Judah Bergman, told local station NBC News New York. “I couldn’t believe it.”

The second video, recorded in Northford, Connecticut (still above), shows a higher-resolution view of the fireball as it burned above wooded hills like a shooting star at high noon.

A close-up of the fireball from the second video, American Meteor Society report 3491ah-2024

Multiple government agencies responded to identify the mysterious, rattling explosion, including NASA’s Meteoroid Environments Office and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) National Earthquake Information Center.

“I have personally spoken to NYC Emergency Management, and there is nothing on their radar,” New York City Councilman Justin Brannan posted on Facebook.

“Some might say a meteor?” Brannan continued. “I’ll keep you posted.”

But NASA noted that there was evidence for an alternative explanation.

“There have been reports of military personnel in the area around the time of the fireball,” the space agency said, “which could explain the vibrations and sounds reported in the media.”

However, despite NASA’s warning, Pentagon officials said NBC New York that neither the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) nor any other U.S. military sensor network had tracked anything that could explain the witness statements.

Astronomer and head of NASA’s Meteoroid Environments Office Bill Cooke said the daylight fireball was first spotted at 11:17 a.m. local time near Greenville Yard, a freight rail station at the Port of New York and New Jersey, “moving slightly east of north at 34,000 miles per hour.”

“That’s what struck me: a fireball shooting through the sky,” eyewitness Judah Bergman told local news station NBC. “I couldn’t believe it.” Above, a still from the 1998 film Armageddon, in which space rocks threaten Earth, including New York City.

Astronomer and head of NASA’s Meteoroid Environments Office, Bill Cooke, issued a statement about the limited facts currently known about the event.

According to Cooke, the fireball was first noticed during the day at 11:17 a.m. local time near Greenville Yard, a freight train station at the Port of New York and New Jersey.

“The fireball was first observed at an altitude of 49 miles over Upper Bay (east of Greenville Yard),” Cooke said.

Despite reports from residents of physical rattling and shaking along the path of the fireball — reportedly coming from northeastern New Jersey and Staten Island, New York — the USGS said in an official statement that there was no evidence of an earthquake.

“A review of seismic data in the area showed no evidence of an earthquake. The USGS has no direct evidence of the source of the quake,” the federal agency’s National Earthquake Information Center said.

“Previous reports of tremors without an associated seismic signal often had atmospheric origins,” the USGS said, “such as sonic booms or weather-related phenomena.”

NASA officials cautioned that their own assessment of Tuesday’s fireball sightings was “uncertain” and based on only “a few eyewitness accounts.”