If you think you’ve been hearing about meteors a lot lately, you’re not imagining it! And recently, Texans learned that not every loud boom is thunder, sometimes, it’s something a little more out of this world.
March has delivered multiple meteor sightings across the U.S., turning ordinary mornings and nights into viral moments, and now, one of those sightings may have ended with a suspected meteor crashing straight through a Texas home.
Meteor Sightings Spike Across the U.S. This Month
First it started in Ohio, then in California and then onto the Midwest. Experts say most of these are harmless space debris, often leftover dust from comets, burning up as they enter Earth’s atmosphere. Most never make it to the ground.
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But sometimes, a piece survives!
Texas Fireball Over Houston Leads to Shocking Impact
That’s exactly what may have happened in Texas.
On March 21, witnesses reported a bright fireball streaking across the sky northwest of Houston, near Stagecoach. NASA later confirmed the sighting, estimating the meteor weighed about a ton and measured roughly three feet across before entering the atmosphere…