A meteorite has crashed through the roof of a house in the city of Koblenz in western Germany after a spectacular fireball lit up the night sky over Western Europe on Sunday evening, March 8.
More than 2,800 sightings of the fireball have been reported to The International Meteorological Organization (IMO), with dozens of videos uploaded to social media. Witnesses reported hearing multiple explosions as the space rock disintegrated in the atmosphere, showering fragments over the western German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
According to available reports, several fragments of meteorite has already been found in Koblenz’s Güls district, which will allow researchers to determine where the meteorite came from. Although damage to several houses has been reported by German mediano one was injured in the incident. The largest fragment discovered is said to have pierced a hole the size of a football into one of the roofs.
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Observers from France, Belgium and the Netherlands have also reported the sighting.
“A meteor just decomposed before my eyes,” one user divided by Xalong with an image showing a white streak of smoke in the darkening sky.
A meteor just decomposed in front of my eyes in Germany, but I have no way to prove it except with this white sky dust #MeteoritDeutschland #Sternschnuppe #meteorit pic.twitter.com/K3RF8Np2cfMarch 8, 2026
Images of alleged meteorite fragments was published by the German newspaper Bild on Monday morning, March 9.
Millions of space rock fragments intersect Earthits way every year. Most of these space rocks vaporize in the atmosphere during the fiery entry. On a clear night, several meteors dash across the sky in an hour.
Around 10,000 meteorites hit the Earth’s surface each year, but only one a few hundred of them have been recovered, most end their lives at the bottom of the world’s oceans.
