Photo Caption: John "Sinatra" Connors and his cat Oscar, along with the mysterious ice chunks that crashed through his ceiling sometime Tuesday morning, wrecking his living room.

A Chicago man arrived home from work on Tuesday evening only to discover three bowling ball-size chunks of ice in his living room and a freaked out cat. John "Sinatra" Connors, an information technology specialist and occasional lounge crooner, said that whatever crashed through the roof of his Ravenswood Manor apartment building landed with such velocity that it shattered the ceiling beams.

"When I walked into my apartment the chair that is normally against the wall was pushed into the middle of the living room," he said. "There was ice everywhere. I could see the sky through the hole in my ceiling." Connors found one chunk of ice in his bedroom, a good 15 to 20 feet away from the crash's epicenter. He says he was in was in too much shock to notice the frigid, arctic wind whipping through the gaping hole in his ceiling.

Besides Connors' cat, Oscar, the only other possible witness to the mysterious falling ice chunks was his 81-year-old neighbor, Doris Patiz, who keeps an eye on the building during the day when everyone is at work. Patiz reported hearing a loud boom just before noon on Tuesday. "I was putting on my clothes to go downstairs when I heard a horrible blast," Patiz said. "I thought a house blew up down the street. I didn't know where the sound was coming from."

Patiz forgot all about the blast until Connors knocked on her door that evening and invited her over to see the opening in his ceiling. His was the only unit in the building that sustained damage.

His friend, Brian McNally, brought over a Shop Vac and helped him clean up the debris. McNally was the first to suggest that perhaps Connors had been the victim of a megacryometeor, a term used to describe a large block of ice that seemingly falls out of the clear blue sky.

John's friend, Brian McNally, assesses the structural damage caused by the megacyrometeor in his apartment.

