Mysterious ice chunk falls from sky onto family home

BOSTON: Pieces of ice gathered after a chunk of ice estimated to be between 6 and 9 kilograms crashed onto the roof of a house in Massachusetts.

A large ice chunk fell from the sky and hit a house in Massachusetts, damaging the roof of the home, a homeowner has revealed.

Jeff Ilg said he and his wife, Amelia Rainville, suspect the ice fell off an airplane travelling to Boston. Neither the couple nor their two children were hurt when the ice chunk, which Ilg said was initially estimated to be between six and nine kilograms, hit the roof on Sunday night (local time).

“We heard an explosion, basically,” he said on Thursday. “The loudest pop, bang I’ve ever heard.” Then they heard debris rolling down the roof onto a lower roof, he said. Initially it was thought the house was struck by lightning.

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The Federal Aviation Administration said it’s investigating.

The couple ran upstairs to check on their children, who were sound asleep despite the noise. They then ran around the house to see what happened and then outside where Ilg said he saw a giant partial block of ice on the back step, and debris scattered around the backyard and on the roof.

“I had no idea what this was,” he said. He grabbed a flashlight and started looking for damage but couldn’t see any at first. His wife called police and then he spotted hole in the roof. He ran up to the attic to see if there was a hole.

“Sure enough it was in there and it was big,” Ilg said. The impact on the outside was about 45 to 60cm in diameter, he said, but the damage to the inside was bigger.

Ilg and his wife collected 4kgs of ice in bags but there was plenty more to collect, he said.