Meteorite crashes through woman’s house after pressure wave ‘booms’ 29 miles above Texas
By Caitlin McCormack
Published March 22, 2026, 4:11 p.m. ET
A meteorite that was barely longer than a standard baseball bat splintered off a meteor blazing over the Houston area on Saturday, scattering smaller chunks all over the city — with one smashing through a woman’s roof.
A fireball tore through the sky over the Houston-area at a staggering 35,000 mph in mere seconds on Saturday afternoon. A 3-foot meteorite broke off just 29 miles above Bammel, Texas, creating “a pressure wave that caused booms heard by some in the area,” NASA confirmed in a post on X.
More meteorites breaking off from the one-ton chunk rained down on the city.
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NASA said meteorites were produced between Willowbrook and Northgate Crossing — two neighborhoods that are 20 miles apart.
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Frazzled Houstonians thought the pressure wave was an explosion — and the Brenham Fire Department was even dispatched to Highway 50, but didn’t find anything strange at the scene.
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