Did a Meteor Hit a House in Texas? What We Know So Far

On Saturday afternoon, March 21, 2026, residents across a wide swath of the Houston area heard and felt something they could not immediately explain. A low, rumbling boom rolled through clear skies. Houses shook. Witnesses reported a green flash and what looked like a fireball streaking across the sky. At a youth baseball game in East Bernard, a parent captured what appeared to be a meteor breaking apart in the upper atmosphere on camera.

By Sunday, NASA had an answer. A one-ton space rock had just made an unannounced visit to the skies over Texas.

What NASA Confirmed

According to NASA, the meteor became visible at approximately 4:40 p.m. CDT on Saturday, first appearing about 49 miles above Stagecoach, Texas, northwest of Houston. It was traveling southeast at roughly 35,000 miles per hour. The rock was approximately 3 feet in diameter and weighed about one ton.

It did not survive the trip. The meteor broke apart 29 miles above Bammel, just west of the Houston suburb of Cypress Station. When a rock traveling at that speed suddenly decelerates and fragments in the lower atmosphere, the energy released is enormous. NASA described the fragmentation as creating a pressure wave equivalent to roughly 26 tons of TNT, which explains why residents across such a wide area heard and felt the event simultaneously.