Eyewitnesses in the New York metropolitan area spotted a fireball streaking across the sky on Tuesday. A NASA expert estimated the meteor to be 1 foot in diameter.

A meteor crashed into Earth over New York City on July 16. Watch the rare daytime fireball light up the skies above New Jersey and Connecticut in this dramatic footage.

A meteor traveling 34,000 mph blasted through Earth's atmosphere before breaking up above midtown Manhattan on Tuesday morning, NASA said.

New York has been the backdrop to countless "end of the world" storylines in film and TV. But on Tuesday an actual meteor shot over the city's iconic Statue of Liberty before disintegrating high above Manhattan,

NASA Meteor Watch said the meteor originated over New York City and moved west towards New Jersey at a speed of 38,000 miles per hour.

Reports of a daylight fireball and loud booms across New York City and New Jersey suggest a meteor entered the atmosphere above the city and traveled west at 38,000 mph, NASA says.

Officials report that the fireball may have flown at 34,000 miles per hour as it passed over the Statue of Liberty before disintegrating over Midtown Manhattan.

USGS says they manually checked and saw no signs of any earthquake.