{"id":673166,"date":"2026-03-22T06:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T06:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/673166\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T06:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T06:15:15","slug":"houston-did-you-hear-the-sonic-boom-a-meteor-is-the-culprit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/673166\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston, did you hear the sonic BOOM? A meteor is the culprit!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>HARRIS COUNTY, Tx<\/strong> \u2013 KPRC2 viewers called the station around 4:45 pm Saturday, reporting a loud sonic boom as a meteor flew overhead!<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Viewer Luis Jasso is catching the video from his home in Katy, TX.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Hundreds of sky watchers from social media to <a href=\"https:\/\/fireball.amsmeteors.org\/members\/imo_view\/event\/2026\/1959\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">American Meteor Society <\/a> reported the shooting star and boom. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Lucero Marquez de Rivera catching the meteor shooting across the sky in East Bernard. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Waller County Judge Trey Duhon posted a loud explosion on Facebook:<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cWaller County is BOOMING apparently\u2026. And I\u2019m not talking about growth<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Apparently a meteor exploded earlier today somewhere near or over our County. I heard it inside the house and the house shook from it. It startled Lisa who was in the backyard.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The loud boom was caused by the meteor disintegrating. <a href=\"https:\/\/fireballs.ndc.nasa.gov\/skyfalls\/events\/20260321-214010\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/fireballs.ndc.nasa.gov\/skyfalls\/events\/20260321-214010\">NASA reports <\/a>it unleashed 26 tons of TNT, creating a pressure wave that was heard and felt at ground level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">GOES East 19 Satellite detecting the meteor through its lightning detector- showing up as a green flash at 4:40 PM on March 21st. <\/p>\n<p>Meteor showed up on satellite<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">If you saw or heard the meteor, share your pictures, videos, and experience with us in the comments!<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRIS COUNTY, Tx \u2013 KPRC2 viewers called the station around 4:45 pm Saturday, reporting a loud sonic boom&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":673167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[21885,4345,16925,283939,358,3187],"class_list":["post-673166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-explosion","tag-houston","tag-meteor","tag-sonic-boom","tag-texas","tag-tx"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116271364499836601","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}