EAGLE MOUNTAIN, Utah (KUTV) — A chunk of ice from the sky tore a hole through a Utah County family's shed and fatally injured their goat.
Cassidy Lewis said she was inside her Eagle Mountain home Monday morning when right at 9:30 a.m. she heard a loud bang from outside and the entire house shook.
When she ran outside, her animals were acting chaotic, and she saw a basketball-sized hole torn through the roof of her goat shed.
Inside, one of her goats was bleeding and injured. All around the ground below the large hole were chunks of ice.
At first, Lewis said she was confused and had no idea what could have caused this. She wondered if it was some sort of explosion.
When law enforcement responded, she said they told her the only likely explanation for what happened was a chunk of ice falling from an airplane overhead.
Her Eagle Mountain neighborhood lies along a flight path to the Salt Lake Airport and planes can routinely be seen flying overhead.
Few reports of ice falling from planes and causing damage are reported each year in the U.S., but it does occur.
Lewis said she took the seriously injured goat to an emergency veterinarian, but they determined the goat could not be saved and it was euthanized.
Since then, she has contacted the SLC Airport as well as the Federal Aviation Administration.
She said the FAA told her they are investigating to determine exactly which flight ice may have fallen from.
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