{"id":398537,"date":"2026-03-22T18:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T18:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/398537\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T18:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T18:28:09","slug":"texas-woman-says-meteorite-crashed-through-her-roof-after-loud-boom-heard-over-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/398537\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas woman says meteorite crashed through her roof after loud boom heard over Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Texas woman says a meteorite crashed through the roof of her home<\/a> after a loud boom was heard over the city of Houston.<\/p>\n

Sherrie James was left speechless after a heavy space rock busted through her roof<\/a> and through the ceiling of her daughter\u2019s bedroom on Saturday.<\/p>\n

A loud boom and flash of light was witnessed by many in the Houston area, with the Brenham Fire Department noting<\/a> witnesses \u201csaw a green flash from the sky\u201d and noted speculation that it was \u201ca possible meteor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw the rock and the first thing that came to my mind was that it was a meteor,\u201d James told Fox 26 Houston. \u201cIt\u2019s very heavy, and it doesn\u2019t look like a normal rock or anything\u2026Just the weight of it, you can tell something is different.\u201d<\/p>\n

James also noted that the rock left a hole in the ceiling and indents on the ground, meaning it came crashing down with great force.<\/p>\n

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A Texas woman says a meteorite crashed into her home on Saturday, after many in Houston reported hearing a loud boom and seeing green flashes in the sky (GoFundMe)<\/p>\n

Local fire officials later confirmed James\u2019 suspicions, telling her that a meteor did explode nearby, sending fragments flying throughout the air.<\/p>\n

Even NASA weighed in, confirming<\/a> that a 3-foot meteor fragment hit northwestern Houston Saturday.<\/p>\n

In a post on X, NASA noted that the meteor became visible at 49 miles above Stagecoach, northwest of Houston, and moved southeast at 35,000 mph.<\/p>\n

The meteor broke apart at 29 miles above Bammel, just west of Cypress Station, NASA said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fragmentation of the meteor \u2014 which weighed about a ton with a diameter of 3 feet \u2014 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 NASA said.<\/p>\n

Footage taken by a driver in Southeast Texas and shared by KHOU<\/a> shows a bright speck of light falling through the sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Texas woman says a meteorite crashed through the roof of her home after a loud boom was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[270],"tags":[18,181081,38402,19,17,181151,42196,133,181082,451],"class_list":["post-398537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-eire","tag-fox-26-houston","tag-houston","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-loud-boom","tag-meteorite","tag-science","tag-sherrie-james","tag-space"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116274246753666950","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}