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Best of the Web: Meteorite slams into Texas woman's home after fireball explodes over Houston area

Ben Kew
The gateway Pundit
Sun, 22 Mar 2026 11:36 UTC

Comment: They're coming down thick and fast now, especially over the US, it seems...


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A meteorite crashed straight through the roof of a home near Houston, Texas, on Saturday, sending shockwaves through the local neighborhood.

Local officials say the incident happened at around 4:45 p.m. in northwest Harris County.

The space rock punched a hole through the roof of a two-story house, slammed into a bedroom floor, then ricocheted and struck the ceiling again.

Miraculously, no one was injured.

Fire Chief Fred Windisch of the Ponderosa Fire Department said he had never seen anything like it in decades of service.

The homeowner, Sherrie James, described hearing a loud explosion from inside the house.

Her grandson went to investigate and found a hole in the ceiling and the rock sitting on the floor below.


Comment: The American Meteor Society reports:
We received 149 reports about a fireball seen over TX on Saturday, March 21st 2026 around 21:39 UT.

For this event, we received one video and 5 photos.


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Meteor fireball over Texas on March 20


American Meteor Society
Sun, 22 Mar 2026 10:26 UTC
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We received 12 reports about a fireball seen over TX on Friday, March 20th 2026 around 10:07 UT.

For this event, we received one video.

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Meteor fireball over Tennessee and 4 other states on March 20


American Meteor Society
Sat, 21 Mar 2026 10:34 UTC
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We received 7 reports about a fireball seen over AL, KY, NC, SC and TN on Friday, March 20th 2026 around 04:18 UT.

For this event, we received one video and one photo.

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Meteor fireball over southeastern Spain (March 17)


Meteoroides.net
Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:41 UTC
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This video shows a bright bolide recorded on March 17, at 23:30 local time (equivalent to 22:30 universal time). At the start of the video, the fireball has been sonified by for outreach purposes (its light was converted into sound). The bolide was observed by a wide number of casual eyewitnesses, who reported it on social networks.

The event was generated by a rock (a meteoroid) from an asteroid that hit the atmosphere at about 108,000 km/h. The fireball overflew the provinces of Murcia and Albacete (Spain). It began at an altitude of about 95 km over the locality of Jumilla (province of Murcia), moved northwest, and ended at a height of around 42 km over the locality of Cañada del Salobral (province of Albacete).

This bright meteor was recorded in the framework of the SMART project, operated by the Southwestern Europe Meteor Network (SWEMN) from the meteor-observing stations located at La Hita (Toledo), Calar Alto (Almería), Sierra Nevada, La Sagra (Granada), Sevilla, and Otura (Granada). The event has been analyzed by the team headed by Dr. Jose M. Madiedo (principal investigator of the SMART project), from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC). Its code in the SWEMN database is: SWEMN20260317_223039.

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Best of the Web: Northeast Ohio's frightening meteor fireball boom felt across 3 states on March 17

David Kesiena
RollingOut.com
Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:54 UTC
WKYC Channel 3 YOUTUBE/NWS Pittsburgh captures video of meteor shooting across the sky
WKYC Channel 3 YOUTUBE/NWS Pittsburgh captures video of meteor shooting across the sky
Residents across Northeast Ohio woke up to something far louder than a St. Patrick's Day celebration this morning. Just before 9 a.m., tens of thousands of people across Northeast Ohio, as well as parts of Pennsylvania and New York, heard and felt what many described as a massive explosion.

No one knew immediately what had caused it. Within hours, the National Weather Service office in Cleveland provided an answer.

What the National Weather Service confirmed

The NWS Cleveland posted on social media that the latest Geostationary Lightning Mapper imagery pointed to a meteor as the source of the boom. The agency shared the imagery alongside its assessment, making clear that the event was natural in origin rather than the result of any industrial or structural incident.


Comment: [Update: Calculated total impact energy 1.5 kt TNT]
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Best of the Web: Long-duration fireball streaks across western Turkey skies, possibly an Earth-grazing meteor on March 15


Space Weekly
Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:00 UTC
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A bright fireball was observed over western Turkey on the evening of March 15, with residents across Uşak Province reporting a slow-moving luminous object crossing the night sky for more than 20 seconds.

Videos recorded by witnesses show a bright white to bluish-green object with a compact head and a narrow glowing tail moving across the sky at a shallow angle before fading from view. The long visible duration and smooth motion distinguish the event from typical meteors, which usually last only a few seconds.

Preliminary analysis suggests the object may have been an Earth-grazing meteor, a rare type of fireball that skims the upper atmosphere at very shallow angles.

Earth-grazing meteors enter the atmosphere at a shallow trajectory and travel hundreds of kilometers through the upper atmosphere before exiting again into space or continuing along a long atmospheric path. Because they remain at high altitude, they can remain visible for 10 to 40 seconds, significantly longer than most meteors.

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Meteor fireball over northwest Europe on March 11


American Meteor Society
Sun, 15 Mar 2026 10:24 UTC
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We received 234 reports about a fireball seen over Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Île-de-France, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Bretagne, Centre-Val de Loire, England, Grand Est, Hauts-de-France, Limburg, Noord-Brabant, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Normandie, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Occitanie, Pays de la Loire, Rheinland-Pfalz, Vlaanderen and Zeel on Wednesday, March 11th 2026 around 20:32 UT.

For this event, we received 2 videos and one photo.

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Meteor fireball seen at night near the Black Sea coast of Russia on March 11

Laboratory of Solar Astronomy (XRAS)
t.me
Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:08 UTC
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The meteorite observed at night flew in the Black Sea about 100 km south of the Crimean Bridge.

Preliminary calculated information has been released on the trajectory and nature of the bright bolide observed last night near the Black Sea coast. Based on the current data, the object's movement was completely above water. The object (meteorite) entered the Earth's atmosphere at approximately 22:35 Moscow time (to be further clarified) in the area of the central water area of the Black Sea, approximately 100-150 km south of the Crimean Bridge. The cameras located on the transport hub, if they have the appropriate spatial orientation, should have recorded the moment of the body's appearance and the entire trajectory of its flight.

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Meteor fireball over Connecticut and 11 other states on March 11


American Meteor Society
Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:09 UTC
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We received 113 reports about a fireball seen over CT, DC, DE, MA, MD, NJ, NY, OH, PA, RI, VA and WV on Wednesday, March 11th 2026 around 03:59 UT.

For this event, we received 9 videos and 6 photos.

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Meteor fireball over Virginia and 11 other states on March 9


American Meteor Society
Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:34 UTC
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We received 234 reports about a fireball seen over CT, DC, IN, MD, MI, NC, NJ, NY, OH, Ontario, PA, Pennsylvania, VA and WV on Monday, March 9th 2026 around 01:44 UT.

For this event, we received 2 videos.

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