One Houston-area resident believes a fragment of the meteor crashed into her home. “I just went in and looked, and I saw the hole, and I saw the dent in the floor,” Sherrie James said.

A bright fireball that was spotted Saturday afternoon in the skies over southeastern Texas was confirmed to be a meteor that likely broke apart over the Houston area, according to NASA.

Eyewitness accounts in the greater Houston area — including footage from a doorbell camera, a car’s dashboard camera and video captured during a Little League baseball game — showed a fiery ball of light streaking across clear, blue skies. NASA said the meteor event occurred at 4:40 p.m. local time, first visible in Stagecoach, northwest of Houston.

“It moved southeast at 35,000 mph, breaking apart 29 miles above Bammel, just west of Cypress Station,” the agency wrote in a post on X.

  • treadful@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    5 days ago

    It just looked like a rock, and ain’t no rocks got no business falling out of the sky