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Charles Fort wrote about many types of substances, objects and animals falling from the sky. He suggested (with tongue planted firmly in cheek) that they fell from floating sky islands. One of the main types of fall he wrote about was chunks of ice plummeting from a clear sky. [1]

Fort’s cases all came from the pre-aircraft days of the 19th century. Modern ice falls are routinely explained away as leaks from plane holding tanks. Blue chunks that smell of chemicals, or greenish-yellow pieces that smell of urine (not to mention rarer cases of brown pieces smelling of something even worse) certainly originate in this way.