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cbs5.com – Mysterious Ice Draws the Curious To Bushrod Park Could this be a sign of the “end times??” Or some sick gag?

Even the experts are having trouble explaining a solid block of ice that fell from the sky, crashed into earth and left behind a three-foot hole in the grass.

The ice fell at Bushrod Park in Oakland early Saturday, one day after witnesses saw something flashing through the sky.

The impact “knocked turf 20 feet away,” said Oakland Police Sergeant Ron Lighten.

No one was injured.

Lieutenant Charles Glass of the Oakland Fire Hazardous Materials Team says the ice was pure water.

The ice that firefighters pulled from the hole was about the same size of the hole – three by three feet and two and a half feet deep, said Glass.

The mysterious hole in the ground drew the curious to the corner of 60th and Shattuck Avenue to speculate on what it might be.

UPDATE: Photo of hole and melted ice:



  1. martin says:

    No mystery. This is just slightly smaller than the condensing container found in the aerosolizing apparatus on the weather modification 747s. The water freezes (due to the 85,000 ft altitude) in the condensing containers and is ejected once full. Generally 3-4 of these ice chunks will be ejected from the 747 during the 11 hour weather modification mission.

    However, the joint NSA/NOAA office running the weathermod missions will be very interested in this story as the ejection should only be taking place over unpopulated areas.

    Wait a minute.. I think I might have said too much.

  2. RTaylor says:

    It seems like I heard of similar events and it was cause by the rupture of water tanks/sewage tanks of airliners, or it could be Blob spores that will take over the world and have us for supper.

  3. Mike Drips says:

    A wee bit north and this could have hit the vast Dvorak estate in Emeryville.

  4. James Hill says:

    Wouldn’t be the first time shit landed on Dvorak.

    Oh, wait. “Condensation”. Right.

  5. Edward Handley says:

    There was a recent news item of a space missle blowing a chunk out of a comet that displace millions of gallons of water. Maybe they should watch what they blow-up

  6. John Wofford says:

    Big party on the ISS and the ice maker went nuts and they had to blow the excess.

  7. AB CD says:

    Obviously this is the result of global warming.

  8. joshua says:

    Bush did it.

  9. Stewart Pidasso says:

    the next day mushrooms were found growing in the field, two days later there have been some strange creature sightings in the nearby neighborhood/golf course. Thats when the army stepped in and said they were cleaning up a downed weather balloon, earlier this morning someone reported seeing a flying reptile in the local shopping mall…..look for the story on headline news tonight!!!

    caaacaaaa caaacaaa tookietookie caaacaaa tookietookie

  10. David says:

    – There are various scientific articles. See, for instance:
    http://tierra.rediris.es/publipapers/megacryometeors_JAC.pdf
    – Textural, hydrochemical and isotopic analyses of the ice demonstrate atmospheric conditions which do not match atmospheric icing.
    – The ice chunks do not have organics. It is not blue ice.
    – There are documented cases of huge ice blocks falling from the sky before the invention of the airplanes!!
    – There are no scientific references about icing processes giving rise to blocks with such size and weights (100 kg – Brazil, China)
    – Icing occurs, Blue ice occurs, but megacryometeors are also falling!

  11. The ice is from the top of the sky.

    It will all come down.

    http://www.geocities.com/stevec15317/strange2.html


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