{"id":215051,"date":"2026-03-22T04:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T04:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/215051\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T04:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T04:02:19","slug":"did-a-meteor-hit-her-home-houston-area-woman-says-object-crashed-through-roof-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/215051\/","title":{"rendered":"Did a meteor hit her home? Houston-area woman says object crashed through roof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Many of you saw the bright light of a meteor over parts of the Houston area Saturday afternoon. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/loud-boom-hear-over-parts-230900548.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Others of you heard a boom from it.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Others of you heard a boom from it.&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Others of you heard a boom from it.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One woman may have actually had pieces of it hit her home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sherrie James, who lives in the Spring area, spoke with KHOU 11 about the object that smashed into her home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">We reached out to the National Weather Service, which told us that one of their satellite products picked up what was a possible meteor or meteorite. And on Saturday night, NASA posted about what they say was a meteor. According to their post, it became visible over Stagecoach, then moved southeast at 35,000 miles per hour before breaking apart west of Cypress Station.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The fragmentation of the meteor &#8211; which weighed about a ton with a diameter of 3 feet &#8211; created a pressure wave that caused booms heard by some in the area,&#8221; according to NASA&#8217;s post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">KHOU 11\u2019s Jason Miles has her story tonight on KHOU 11 News after 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Got a news tip or story idea? Email us at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/mailto:newstips@khou.com\" data-ylk=\"slk:newstips@khou.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;newstips@khou.com&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">newstips@khou.com<\/a>\u00a0or call 713-521-4310 and include your name and the best way to reach you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many of you saw the bright light of a meteor over parts of the Houston area Saturday afternoon.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,59168,1911,1971,84075],"class_list":["post-215051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-khou","tag-nasa","tag-national-weather-service","tag-sherrie-james"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}