 The meteor was first seen close to noon, about 49 miles above Upper Bay and moving northeast at 34,000 miles an hour. It even passed over the Statue of Liberty and then disintegrated 29 miles above Midtown Manhattan. It was the initial boom and then like less than a second after that, there was a tremble of the house. I have a dog, a golden retriever and a cat, both of which the golden retriever jumped out of his skin and the cat just darted under the sofa.