{"id":215800,"date":"2026-03-22T21:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T21:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/215800\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T21:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T21:07:08","slug":"meteorite-crashes-through-womans-house-after-pressure-wave-booms-29-miles-above-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/215800\/","title":{"rendered":"Meteorite crashes through woman’s house after pressure wave ‘booms’ 29 miles above Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

A meteorite that was barely longer than a standard baseball bat splintered off a meteor blazing over the Houston area on Saturday, scattering smaller chunks all over the city \u2014 with one smashing through a woman\u2019s roof<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A fireball tore through the sky over the Houston-area at a staggering 35,000 mph in mere seconds on Saturday afternoon. A 3-foot meteorite broke off just 29 miles above Bammel, Texas, creating \u201ca pressure wave that caused booms heard by some in the area,\u201d NASA confirmed in a post on X<\/a>. <\/p>\n

A meteorite broke off over Houston, Texas on Saturday. FOX<\/p>\n

NASA confirmed the speculated fireball was a meteor. NASA<\/p>\n

More meteorites breaking off from the one-ton chunk rained down on the city.<\/p>\n

NASA said meteorites were produced between Willowbrook and Northgate Crossing \u2014 two neighborhoods that are 20 miles apart. <\/p>\n

Frazzled Houstonians thought the pressure wave was an explosion \u2014 and the Brenham Fire Department was even dispatched to Highway 50, but didn\u2019t find anything strange at the scene.<\/p>\n

Several witnesses who were driving on the highway that afternoon reported seeing a \u201cgreen flash fall from the sky, black smoke, and heard a loud \u2018boom.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fire officials could only assume the culprit was a \u201cpossible meteor\u201d at the time.<\/p>\n

A football-sized piece broke through a residential home\u2019s roof in Ponderosa Forest, Texas, roughly 20 miles outside of Houston. <\/p>\n

One smaller piece burst through a woman\u2019s roof. FOX<\/p>\n

Sherrie James, the stunned homeowner, found an \u201cunusual rock\u201d not far from a gaping hole in her ceiling and flooring. <\/p>\n

Since there was no construction or trees near James\u2019 home, the fire department told\u00a0FOX 26<\/a>\u00a0the rock was likely part of the then-unconfirmed meteor that soared over Houston.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0American Meteor Society<\/a> collected more than 100 reports of the \u201cfireball event\u201d later cited in NASA\u2019s meteor confirmation.<\/p>\n

Last week, another meteor exploded over Ohio, sending a sonic boom that could be heard from as far as New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A meteorite that was barely longer than a standard baseball bat splintered off a meteor blazing over the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[56,84051,1911,1688,27,29,28,734],"class_list":["post-215800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-houston","tag-meteor","tag-nasa","tag-ohio","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215800","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=215800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}