The 26-pound chunk of ice fell on Fazilpur Badli village with a "big thud", startling residents in the wee hours of Saturday. Before authorities could reach the site, suspicious villagers "sneaked a few pieces into their clothes", and stored them in their refrigerators at home. Senior Gurgaon official Vivek Kalia said some villagers thought it was an "extra-terrestrial" object.
"It was a very heavy icy ball of ice which dropped from the skies early on Saturday morning. There was big thud and people of the village came running out of their homes to find out what had happened," he said. "Some villagers thought it was an extra-terrestrial object. Others thought it was some celestial rock and I've heard that they took samples home," he said.
However, authorities now suspect that the ice chunk is nothing more than frozen human waste leaked from an airplane overhead. Plane toilets store human waste in special tanks, which are normally disposed of once the plane has landed. But international aviation authorities acknowledge that lavatory leaks can occur in the air.
Kalia told reporters that a sample of the projectile had been sent for chemical analysis, but "we suspect strongly" that it is frozen airline excrement.
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