{"id":215557,"date":"2026-03-22T15:48:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T15:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/215557\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T15:48:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T15:48:36","slug":"suspected-meteorite-crashes-into-houston-home-officials-say-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/215557\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected meteorite crashes into Houston home, officials say | Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"

A suspected meteorite crashed into a home in suburban Houston<\/a> on Saturday night, according to local residents and officials.<\/p>\n

Speaking to<\/a> the local news outlet KHOU11 over the weekend, Spring area resident Sherrie James recalled the incident, saying: \u201cMy grandson went to check and said there was a hole in the ceiling \u2026 then I saw the rock, and I thought, \u2018That looks like a meteor.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

James said she reported the incident to the local fire department. \u201cThe first thing they thought was maybe it fell off a plane,\u201d she recounted. However, the fire department later informed her that they had received reports that a meteor was over the north part of Houston<\/a> which had exploded into multiple pieces.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, the US space agency Nasa confirmed the information about a meteor, saying<\/a> in a statement on X: \u201cEyewitnesses in Texas observed a bright fireball today \u2026 at [4.40pm local time]. Current data indicates that the meteor became visible at 49 miles above Stagecoach, north-west of Houston. It moved southeast at 35,000mph, breaking apart 29 miles above Bammel, just west of Cypress Station.<\/p>\n

It added: \u201cThe fragmentation of the meteor \u2013 which weighed about a ton with a diameter of 3 feet \u2013 created a pressure wave that caused booms heard by some in the area. Doppler weather radar also showed meteorites produced between Willowbrook and Northgate Crossing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Local residents reported hearing thunder-like noises about the time the fireball was visible. Bridgeland resident Wendy Camardelle Heppner told<\/a> KHOU11 that it \u201csounded like thunder, but clear skies\u201d \u2013 while Dickinson resident Shylie Troquille reported a small ball of fire in the sky that swiftly disappeared.<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s episode in Houston comes just days after a meteor in Ohio created <\/a>a sonic boom so loud it was heard as far as Pennsylvania. Traveling at 45,000mph, the asteroid \u2013 about 2 meters in diameter and weighing about 6 tons \u2013 triggered the explosion, which Nasa confirmed was felt well beyond northern Ohio.<\/p>\n

The events in Houston on Saturday called to mind an episode in August 2025 that involved a small fireball \u2013 no larger than a cherry tomato \u2013 that tore through a home in Atlanta. It was later confirmed<\/a> to have originated from a meteorite that formed 4.56bn years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A suspected meteorite crashed into a home in suburban Houston on Saturday night, according to local residents and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-215557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-houston-headlines","10":"tag-houston-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215557","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=215557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}