NASA later confirmed on X that the fireball blazed across the sky around 4:40 p.m. CDT on March 21.<\/p>\n
SEE IT: METEOR CAUGHT ON CAMERA STREAKING OVER PITTSBURGH, REPORTS OF LOUD BOOM ACROSS OHIO VALLEY<\/a><\/p>\n This comes less than a week after a bright meteor blazed across the Ohio<\/a> skies on March 17, with reports of visibility in Delaware<\/a>, Indiana<\/a>, Illinois<\/a>, Kentucky<\/a>, Maryland<\/a>, Michigan<\/a>, New York<\/a>, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia<\/a>.<\/p>\n According to NASA, data indicates the object became visible about 49 miles above Stagecoach, northwest of Houston<\/a>, traveling southeast<\/a> at roughly 35,000\u202fmph, and disintegrated around 29 miles above Bammel, near Cypress<\/a> Station.<\/p>\n Estimated at one ton in mass and three feet in diameter, the meteor\u2019s breakup created a pressure wave that produced audible booms, according to NASA<\/a>.<\/p>\n WATCH: RARE METEOR EXPLOSION CAUGHT ON CAMERA<\/a><\/p>\n NASA said the resulting fireball released an amount of energy equivalent to 26 tons of TNT into the atmosphere<\/a>. NASA’s Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science<\/a> department provided a map of where meteorites may have landed.<\/p>\n An estimate of where meteorites landed in Texas on March 21, 2026.<\/p>\n (NASA’s Astromaterials Research & Exploration Science \/ FOX Weather)<\/p>\n Meteors<\/a> streak through the sky at tens of thousands of miles per hour, far exceeding the speed of sound, and whether a sonic boom is heard on the ground depends on their size and altitude.<\/p>\n![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/meteorite-landing-spots.png\")
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