US EditionSuspected Meteorite Crashes Through Houston Home After Fireball Lights Up Texas Sky
A meteor weighing about one ton created a pressure wave equivalent to 26 tons of TNT and may have struck a Houston home, causing damage but no injuries.
- On Saturday, March 21, 2026, NASA confirmed a meteor broke apart over Southeast Texas after moving southeast at 35,000 mph and fragmenting about 49 miles above Stagecoach.
- Witnesses said at about 4:40 p.m. CDT, a fireball appeared and the boom lasted between 1.5 and 7.5 seconds, despite clear skies.
- Local newsrooms received reports pouring in from Katy, Cypress and Pearland, while the American Meteor Society logged more than 100 reports of the fireball event.
- Ponderosa Fire Chief Fred Windisch and responding crews, including Fire Captain Tyler Ellingham, said they found an 'unusual rock' that may be debris from a possible meteorite that crashed through a home’s roof.
- The National Weather Service said a satellite product detected a possible meteor as local crews checked explosions, while NASA said fragmentation of an object weighing about a ton with a diameter of 3 feet caused pressure waves creating loud booms.
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