You have to see this! Texas homeowner shows damage to her house from possible meteorite fragment

FALLING FROM THE SKY — A Texas woman believes a piece of a possible meteorite crashed through her home earlier this month.

NASA reported on March 21, 2026, that a “bright fireball” was seen over Texas, and videos circled online showing the fireball making its way across the Texas sky.

Scientists said data indicated the meteor became visible at 49 miles above Stagecoach, northwest of Houston. The meteor then traveled southeast at 35,000 miles per hour before breaking apart 29 miles above Bammel, west of Cypress Station.

“The fragmentation of the meteor — which weighed about a ton with a diameter of three feet — created a pressure wave that caused booms heard by some in the area,” a NASA Space Alerts Facebook post states.

But for Sherrie James, who lives in the Spring, Texas, area, she told KHOU 11 that part of the meteorite came bursting through her ceiling and into an upstairs bedroom. Video of the aftermath can be watched in the video player above.

“We heard a big boom when I was in my bedroom, and I didn’t know what it was, so I told my grandson to go see what it was,” James recalled. “He comes back and said, ‘You have a hole in the ceiling.'”

James didn’t understand what had happened so she went to check it out for herself.

“I saw the hole (in the ceiling), I saw the hole in the floor, and then I saw the rock, and I’m like, ‘Oh, no. That looks like a meteor piece,'” she said.

James said she called the fire department, which initially considered whether the object could have fallen from a plane. But minutes later, crews told James there were reports of a meteor breaking apart over north Houston.

“I’m very excited to get this, but a little scared,” James told the news outlet. “I think this is what it is, and I’m definitely going to keep it.”

Despite the damage to the home, no one was hurt.