Houston Home Hit By Apparent Meteorite

A suspected space rock tore through a Houston-area home Saturday afternoon after residents across the region reported a thunderous boom and a green flash in the sky.

Sherrie James, a resident of the Ponderosa Forest neighborhood north of Houston, told FOX 26 that she contacted the Ponderosa Fire Department after an unusual rock smashed through her roof, Fox News reported. Photos she provided showed a football-sized black object that looked as though it had separated from something much larger, leaving a sizable gap in her ceiling and flooring.

The Brenham Fire Department said it dispatched crews to the Highway 50 area after callers described what sounded like an explosion but found no signs of a blast on scene, according to Fox News. Multiple witnesses told the department they observed a green flash overhead, trailed by dark smoke and a powerful boom. (RELATED: Fiery Meteor Streaks Through Sky Before Boom Rattles State)

Fire officials initially suspected the object fell from an aircraft but later determined it was likely connected to the suspected meteor, Fox News reported. The American Meteor Society received more than 100 reports and classified the incident as a “fireball event” over Texas, with observers estimating the event lasted up to 7.5 seconds.

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Ponderosa Fire Chief Fred Windisch told CBS News the object “appears to be a meteorite.” He described it as slightly larger than his hand and said it punched through the roof and two floors of the home before coming to rest in the kitchen.

The American Meteor Society plotted the object’s likely atmospheric path near Magnolia, descending toward Monroe. A geostationary lightning mapper captured the infrared flash tied to the explosion, Newsweek reported.

NASA said the meteor first appeared roughly 50 miles above Stagecoach, northwest of Houston, around 4:40 p.m. local time, CBS News reported. The object traveled southeast at 35,000 mph before fragmenting 29 miles above Bammel. The agency estimated it weighed approximately one ton and measured 3 feet across. Its breakup generated a pressure wave that produced the booms heard throughout the area.