 Musk has also said he's moved his home to Texas where there is no state personal income tax. Alex Stone, EBC News. A big noise here in New York City. A loud boom heard over parts of the city and some suburbs. NASA believes a meteor hit the atmosphere at 34,000 miles an hour. That's Mach 44, 50 miles over the Statue of Liberty and disintegrated. There were no meteorites produced and no one was hurt.