Following a tremendous boom being heard by local residents in Texas, a woman in the Houston area said a meteorite crashed through her home’s roof.
The strange incident occurred on Saturday at around 4:40 p.m. Reports first started trickling in to local media outlets and on social media about noises that sounded like thunder, despite the skies being clear.
KHOU 11 News reported, “After we started getting reports about it, we put a post on our Facebook page asking if people had heard or seen anything. And once we did, the reports started pouring in from Katy, Cypress, Hockley, Waller and Pearland to as far away as Navasota, Sealy and even Port Arkansas.”
Saturday night, the buzz about a possible meteorite had gotten so loud that NASA felt the need to respond.
“Eyewitnesses in Texas observed a bright fireball today, March 21, at 4:40 p.m. CDT,” the space agency wrote on X. “Current data indicates that the meteor became visible at 49 miles above Stagecoach, northwest of Houston. It moved southeast at 35,000 mph, breaking apart 29 miles above Bammel, just west of Cypress Station. The fragmentation of the meteor – which weighed about a ton with a diameter of 3 feet – 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.”
Meteroite crashes through roof of home in Texas
For a family in Spring, Texas, there was more than just a loud noise. Sherrie James reported that something crashed through the roof of her house.
“My grandson went to check and said there was a hole in the ceiling,” James told KHOU 11 News. “I saw the rock, and I thought, ‘That looks like a meteor.’”
A fire crew initially believed that the object fell from a passing plane. That changed when reports of a loud, booming noise started trickling in.
In Old Katy, one resident said the boom had a “long, low rumble” that sounded like an explosion. A Cy-Fair man said the sound lasted about 15 seconds and shook his house, while a woman in Hockley reported that the boom caused her home to vibrate. Others said they saw a bright streak or fireball in the sky.