Houston family was left shell-shocked after something heavy tore through their roof after a loud explosion — NASA later confirmed their fear
A Houston resident, Sherrie James, heard a loud noise in her daughter's room after something appeared to have fallen from the sky. However, the explosion-like sound led them to find the object landing inside their house after crashing through two stories of their home on March 21, 2026. The residents already suspected what it could be, and NASA has now confirmed their suspicion, leaving the family in shock. Reported by Fox 9 Houston on Sunday, March 22, 2026, the family revealed what made them suspect the object right away.
As per PEOPLE, James was at home when a "loud boom" quickly alerted her. To her surprise, she found a heavy rock that had crashed through her roof. However, as soon as she saw the rock, she knew it wasn't anything ordinary and believed it was a "possible meteor." She immediately contacted the Brenham Fire Department, who initially dismissed her concern, asking if it was something that had fallen from an aircraft. But Ponderosa Fire Chief Fred Windisch suspected that the rock that crashed through James' house and landed in her kitchen was a meteor. James' suspicion was confirmed by NASA, which revealed that the 3-foot-long rock was indeed a meteor fragment that hit her home.
According to an eyewitness, whose car's dashboard captured footage, a bright green fireball was visible above Stagecoach before it broke apart, and one of the fragments hit James' house, per KHOU 11. "The fragmentation of the meteor, which weighed about a ton with a diameter of 3 feet, created a pressure wave that caused booms heard by some in the area," NASA wrote. James, who was shocked by the incident, did not wish to touch the heavy rock, fearing "alien bacteria" or "radiation." She also noted that while the event was scary, it was equally exciting to have witnessed. "It can happen to anybody," she noted.
Meteors usually hit Earth because the planet moves through space debris left by other asteroids. Earth attracts these objects with its gravitational pull. According to Britannica, when the meteoroids travel at high speed as they enter the atmosphere, they mostly burn up and break into fragments, which can still cause significant impacts on the surface, as seen in James' home. Meteorites can cause large explosions that are proportionate to their size.
According to NASA, a large asteroid impact 65 million years ago led to the extinction of about 75% of marine and land animals on Earth, including the dinosaurs. While 99.8% meteorites come from asteroids, 0.2% come from Mars and the Moon. Earth has witnessed several meteor impacts, with one of the oldest craters being the Manicouagan Crater in Canada, which stretches about 100 kilometers in diameter. This meteorite crashed into Earth around 210 million years ago.
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