{"id":489143,"date":"2026-03-22T10:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T10:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/489143\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T10:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T10:56:12","slug":"fireball-seen-falling-across-sky-in-smith-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/489143\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireball seen falling across sky in Smith County"},"content":{"rendered":"

SMITH COUNTY, Texas (KETK<\/a>) \u2013 Smith County officials have confirmed to KETK News that multiple people from across the area saw a fireball falling from the sky on Saturday.<\/p>\n

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According to Smith County Emergency Services District 2, reports of the fireball came in from as far north as Red Springs and as far south as Bullard at around 5:30 p.m. but nobody has found any meteorite or meteorite fragments on the ground.<\/p>\n

Anyone who took photos of the fireball or thinks they found a meteorite can click here to send their photos to KETK News<\/a>. Anyone with information about the fireball can email us at newsroom@ketk.com.<\/p>\n

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For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KETK.com | FOX51.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SMITH COUNTY, Texas (KETK) \u2013 Smith County officials have confirmed to KETK News that multiple people from across…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[173155,173153,173156,90,173154,416,3329,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-489143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ketk","tag-ketk-news","tag-meteorite-fragments","tag-science","tag-smith-county","tag-space","tag-texas","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}