{"id":205053,"date":"2026-03-23T05:37:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T05:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/suspected-meteorite-crashes-into-houston-home-officials-say-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T05:37:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T05:37:26","slug":"suspected-meteorite-crashes-into-houston-home-officials-say-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/suspected-meteorite-crashes-into-houston-home-officials-say-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected meteorite crashes into Houston home, officials say – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nasa confirms meteor after residents reported hearing thunder-like noises about the time the fireball was visible
A suspected meteorite crashed into a home in suburban Houston<\/a> on Saturday night, according to local residents and officials.
Speaking to<\/a> the local news outlet KHOU11 over the weekend, Spring area resident Sherrie James recalled the incident, saying: \u201cMy grandson went to check and said there was a hole in the ceiling \u2026 then I saw the rock, and I thought, \u2018That looks like a meteor.\u2019\u201d
James said she reported the incident to the local fire department. \u201cThe first thing they thought was maybe it fell off a plane,\u201d she recounted. However, the fire department later informed her that they had received reports that a meteor was over the north part of Houston<\/a> which had exploded into multiple pieces.
On Saturday, the US space agency Nasa confirmed the information about a meteor, saying<\/a> in a statement on X: \u201cEyewitnesses in Texas observed a bright fireball today \u2026 at [4.40pm local time]. Current data indicates that the meteor became visible at 49 miles above Stagecoach, north-west of Houston. It moved south-east at 35,000mph, breaking apart 29 miles above Bammel, just west of Cypress Station.
It added: \u201cThe fragmentation of the meteor \u2013 which weighed about a ton with a diameter of 3 feet \u2013 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
Local residents reported hearing thunder-like noises about the time the fireball was visible. Bridgeland resident Wendy Camardelle Heppner told<\/a> KHOU11 that it \u201csounded like thunder, but clear skies\u201d \u2013 while Dickinson resident Shylie Troquille reported a small ball of fire in the sky that swiftly disappeared.
Saturday\u2019s episode in Houston comes just days after a meteor in Ohio created <\/a>a sonic boom so loud it was heard as far as Pennsylvania. Traveling at 45,000mph, the asteroid \u2013 about 2 meters in diameter and weighing about 6 tons \u2013 triggered the explosion, which Nasa confirmed was felt well beyond northern Ohio.
The events in Houston on Saturday called to mind an episode in August 2025 that involved a small fireball \u2013 no larger than a cherry tomato \u2013 that tore through a home in Atlanta. It was later confirmed<\/a> to have originated from a meteorite that formed 4.56bn years ago.<\/p>\n

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Nasa confirms meteor after residents reported hearing thunder-like noises about the time the fireball was visibleA suspected meteorite crashed into a home in suburban Houston on Saturday night, according to local residents and officials.Speaking to the local news outlet KHOU11 over the weekend, Spring area resident Sherrie James recalled the incident, saying: \u201cMy grandson went […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":205054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-205053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-us","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}