Lucky to be alive: Ice ball falling from sky crashes into SoCal home Second San Bernardino-area house to be struck by plummeting ice in a month

For the second time in a month, a San Bernardino, Calif.—area home has been "ice-bombed," presumably by an aircraft passing overhead.

Claudell Curry and his wife, Odell, who live in the Southern California city, were watching television Sunday night in their living room when they were startled by an ear-splitting crash.

"This horrendous boom and our house just shook and trembled," Curry told CBS Los Angeles.

Curry looked around the house to see if he could find out what happened. While passing his bedroom, he glimpsed pieces of drywall and insulation on the bed. And something else: large chunks of ice.

"Snow white, just ice, and heavy. Each piece was like iron," he told the station.

Above the bed, he could see the sky through a hole in the ceiling.

The only thing that could have caused such damage is ice falling from an airplane, Curry believes.

About a month ago, the same thing happened to a San Bernardino County home, only instead of the bedroom, the ice debris crashed through the roof and a bathroom ceiling.

"I'm wondering what's going on, don't know what's happening. But once I kind of settled down a little bit and saw the ice, I immediately think it had to fall from the sky," the homeowner, Brandon Blanchard, told KABC on Nov. 7. "What's in the sky? Airplanes."

As in the case of the Curry home, the ice was clear, not blue.

There have been reports of blue ice — waste from an aircraft's lavatory — possibly falling from planes and hitting buildings or leaving craters in the ground, but the FAA says such incidents are exceedingly rare. Pilots of today's jets cannot eject toilet contents, the agency says, but blue ice could result from a mechanical failure, such as a leak.

Whatever the cause, Claudell Curry thinks "something needs to be done about this."

"Someone could get killed and we came close to it," he said.