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Midday fireball, boom thrill gazers from Ontario to Virginia

| December 2, 2020 2:07 PM

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — A noontime boom that was heard and felt from southern Ontario to Virginia was likely caused by a disintegrating meteor, according to an organization in western New York that keeps track of such phenomena.

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