[meteorite-list] Falling Ice chunk in Preston, CT

[Ron Baalke]

> 
> I just saw a segment on WTNH TV in New Haven, CT which showed a basketball 
> sized chunk of ice that hit and dented a roof in Preston, CT.  The piece of 
> ice was predominantly whitish with varying sizes of dirt and gravel 
> embedded.  The owner, wisely is preserving the specimen in his freezer.  The 
> FAA said that no planes were over Preston at the time, but Preston is under 
> the flight path of many international flights leaving from the New York 
> airports.  The skies at the time were variably cloudy and the temp was in 
> the upper 30's.
> 

It is possible that it is ice from a plane.
I didn't see any mention about the ice on the WTNH TV website:

http://www.wtnh.com/ 

I did notice too that there was a snow squall last night in that area.

Ron Baalke