Suspected Meteorite Crashes Through Roof Near Houston, Texas

Houston. A suspected meteorite crashed into a home near Houston, Texas, on Saturday night. A piece of the fiery object, which entered the sky at high speed and exploded, damaged the roof of a local house.

According to Sherry James, a resident of the Spring area of Houston, she only learned about the incident after her grandson spotted a hole in the roof. “My grandson saw a hole in the roof, and then I saw a rock there, which looked like a meteorite,” James told local media.

Although the fire department initially speculated the object might have fallen from an aircraft, NASA later confirmed it was a meteorite. According to the US space agency NASA, a bright fireball was seen in the sky at 4:40 PM local time on Saturday.

The meteorite, weighing about 1 ton and having a diameter of 3 feet, was seen 49 miles above Stagecoach, northwest of Houston. It fragmented in the sky about 29 miles above the ground while traveling southeastward at an extreme speed of 35,000 miles per hour.

The pressure released during the meteorite's explosion caused a loud sound similar to thunder in the area. Local resident Wendy Camardelle Heppner reported hearing a loud sound like thunder even though the sky was clear.

Doppler weather radar also indicated that fragments of the meteorite fell in the Willowbrook and Northgate Crossing areas. Just a few days before this incident in Houston, a similar large meteorite was spotted in Ohio, the sound of which was heard as far as Pennsylvania.

Recently, the frequency of such celestial bodies entering the Earth's atmosphere and reaching the ground appears to be increasing. Previously, in August 2025, a small meteorite damaged a house in Atlanta, which was confirmed to be 4.56 billion years old.