Houston Home Hit By Apparent Meteorite

A suspected meteor crashed through the roof of a home north of Houston on Saturday afternoon after people across the region reported hearing a loud boom and seeing a bright green flash in the sky.

Sherrie James, who lives in the Ponderosa Forest neighborhood, said she contacted the Ponderosa Fire Department after an unusual rock broke through her house. She shared photos showing a black object about the size of a football that appeared to have broken off from a much larger body. The impact left a hole through the roof and damaged both the ceiling and floor inside the home.

Emergency crews were also sent to the Highway 50 area after the Brenham Fire Department received reports of what sounded like an explosion. When firefighters arrived, they found no evidence of a blast. Witnesses told officials they had seen a green streak in the sky followed by dark smoke and a powerful boom. At first, fire officials considered the possibility that debris had fallen from an aircraft, but they later concluded the object was likely related to a meteor event.

The American Meteor Society reported receiving more than 100 witness accounts and classified the incident as a fireball event over Texas. Observers estimated the visible event lasted up to about 7.5 seconds.

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Ponderosa Fire Chief Fred Windisch said the object appears to be a meteorite. According to him, the rock was slightly larger than his hand and tore through the roof and two floors of the house before stopping in the kitchen.

Data from the American Meteor Society suggests the object traveled through the atmosphere near Magnolia and continued toward Monroe. A geostationary lightning mapper also detected an infrared flash associated with the explosion.

NASA reported that the meteor first became visible about 50 miles above Stagecoach, northwest of Houston, at around 4:40 p.m. local time. It was traveling southeast at roughly 35,000 miles per hour before breaking apart about 29 miles above Bammel. NASA estimated the space rock weighed about one ton and measured roughly three feet across. Its breakup created a pressure wave that produced the loud booms heard throughout the area.