Meteor soars over Statue of Liberty, burns up over Manhattan. NASA confirms incident. WATCH Video

A meteor was seen soaring over the Statue of Liberty before disintegrating about 30 miles above Midtown Manhattan on Tuesday morning. NASA has reported that the rock passed through the atmosphere over the Big Apple around 11:15 a.m. New Yorkers reported watching a flash of fire streak across the sky at the same time. They also said that they felt the ground lightly shaking beneath their feet, reports 'New York Post'. Confirming the incident, the Meteoroid Environments Office of NASA said in a Facebook post that the American Meteor Society has provided eyewitnesses of a sighting of a "fireball and booms and shakings" between 10 a.m. and noon Eastern time.

American Meteor Society posts video

In another video posted by the American Meteor Society on its official YouTube channel, a flash of light can be seen streaking through the sky in Northford, Connecticut, and Wayne, New Jersey.

Meteor over Manhattan

Talking to AP, William Cooke, who heads NASA's Meteoroid Environments Office, said that the meteor was first spotted at an altitude of 51 miles or 82 kilometers above Manhattan at approximately 11:17 a.m. on Tuesday. The meteor then traveled over southern Newark, New Jersey, before disintegrating 31 miles or 50 kilometers above the town of Mountainside.

NASA confirms meteor

According to 'Newsweek', NASA's Meteoroid Environments Office admitted that it does not track everything in space and smaller rocks such as Tuesday's meteor are "incapable of surviving to the ground." It said in a statement, that it keeps track of asteroids that are capable of posing a danger to us Earth dwellers, but small rocks like the one producing this fireball are only about a foot in diameter, incapable of surviving to the ground.

FAQs:

What did NASA say about the incident of a meteor soaring above Manhattan?
NASA's Meteoroid Environments Office said that the meteor was first spotted at an altitude of 51 miles or 82 kilometers above Manhattan at approximately 11:17 a.m. on Tuesday.

Is there any evidence of watching the meteor above Manhattan's sky?
The American Meteor Society has provided eyewitnesses of a sighting of a "fireball and booms and shakings" between 10 a.m. and noon Eastern time. It has also uploaded two videos on its official YouTube channel.