{"id":556826,"date":"2026-03-22T10:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T10:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/556826\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T10:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T10:43:11","slug":"suspected-meteorite-crashes-into-houston-womans-home-amid-citywide-reports-of-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/556826\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected meteorite crashes into Houston woman&#8217;s home amid citywide reports of &#8216;boom&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; Following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fox26houston\/posts\/pfbid05XjRuEqRU96EUhNPki6wutaRRykJEv3zTQ5sPQEZrk62U1N51vuK5vJu8kRXmDZJl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">reports of a loud &#8220;boom&#8221;<\/a> and houses shaking the Houston area on Saturday, a woman says a potential piece of the answer may have been what crashed through her roof.<\/p>\n<p>   Potential meteorite in Houston woman&#8217;s home <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Social media was buzzing with questions about a noise sounding like thunder or an explosion shortly before 5 p.m. Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BrenhamFireDepartment\/posts\/pfbid0944h8RwkT5chE224wVMyrz27g8XWQWojcLAYue8uPs3PF3e7zbHVEV3E9xoaPMcfl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Brenham Fire Department said<\/a> they responded to reports of a possible explosion, but they did not find proof that one happened.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Some speculated whether the noise came from a meteor or a sonic boom.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">As the questions continued, a woman contacted FOX 26 claiming a meteorite crashed through her roof. Sherrie James says she contacted the Ponderosa Fire Department for help.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Fire Captain Tyler Ellingham confirmed that he responded to James&#8217; call. The captain&#8217;s team found what they say is an unusual rock.<\/p>\n<p>(Photos courtesy of Sherrie James) <\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Since there was no construction or trees nearby, the fire department believes the rock is a part of the alleged meteor that was heard around Houston.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">FOX 26 has contacted NASA to confirm reports of a meteor, but they couldn&#8217;t confirm anything as of this report.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">This is a developing news report. We will update when any information is available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Sherrie James and Ponderosa Fire Captain Tyler Ellingham.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/science\/air-space\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Air and Space<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; Following reports of a loud &#8220;boom&#8221; and houses shaking the Houston area on Saturday, a woman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[274980,64,63,5145,44,128,285,29215,2489],"class_list":["post-556826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-air-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-houston","tag-news","tag-science","tag-space","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}