Overview
- A bright fireball crossed western Germany around 19:00 on March 8, drawing thousands of reports and videos from Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
- In Koblenz‑Güls, a largely ablated fragment punched a football‑sized hole through a house roof and into a bedroom, with no injuries reported.
- Police logged additional roof damage reports from parts of Rhineland‑Palatinate including the Hunsrück and the Eifel, while authorities stressed there is no ongoing danger.
- Emergency lines saw heavy call volumes and large searches were launched in places such as Stade, but those operations did not find debris.
- Officials say a small centimetre‑scale piece was recovered in Koblenz as ESA, DLR and KIT analyze recordings and seismic data; experts estimate the meteoroid at roughly one to a few meters and urge citizens not to handle possible finds but to contact authorities.