Event: 20260321-214010

Many eyewitnesses in the state of Texas have filed reports on the American Meteor Society website of a bright fireball seen on March 21 at 4:40 PM Central Daylight Time (2026 Mar 21 21:40 UTC). The meteor was also detected by the Geostationary Lightning Mappers on the GOES satellites. An analysis of the currently available data indicates that the meteor became visible at an altitude of 49 miles above Stagecoach, located northwest of Houston. It moved southeast at 35,000 miles per hour, breaking apart 29 miles above Bammel, just to the west of Cypress Station. The disintegration of the asteroidal fragment - which weighed about a ton with a diameter of 3 feet - unleashed an energy of 26 tons of TNT, creating a pressure wave that propagated to the ground and causing the booms heard by some in the area. Doppler weather radar shows meteorites falling to the ground between Willowbrook and Northgate Crossing.

We thank the American Meteor Society for providing the eyewitness accounts.

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