Modesto, Calif. (AP) — Authorities are investigating whether a bowling ball-sized chunk of ice that crashed through the roof of a home and struck a 10-year-old boy Monday came from a passing airliner, police said.

Carlos Mendez received a bump on the head and was frightened by the frozen flying object, but otherwise uninjured, said his mother, Corrina Vargas. They and seven people inside the house across the street from Modesto City-County Airport fled when the ice broke through the living room ceiling, she said.

Police and firefighters cordoned off the home and collected the remaining shards of the brown and white ice, which punched a three-foot-wide hole in the roof, said Modesto Police Department spokesman Craig Gunlach.

“There is no indication it was anything but an accident,” he said.

jay: you mean, it wasn’t a sign from god? or a sign from terrorists? or a sign from terrorist god? you seem pretty confident for a small-town police spokesman.

dan: brown and white ice. from an airplane? ew.

jay: yeah man, dude got tooken out by a poopcicle.

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