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A Portuguese postman from Arruda dos Vinhos escaped serious injury last week after a rock of blue ice smashed into the ground very close to where he was walking.
"I saw that it had caused a crater and noticed that there were pieces of blue ice scattered on the floor," said Eduardo Jorge who was delivering mail late on the morning of March 25.
"If it had fallen on top of my head I would have certainly died," claimed the postman.
After relating the incident to work colleagues, Jorge returned to the location of the incident sometime after 5pm the same day and retrieved a surviving chunk of blue green ice, in order to prove what had happened was not a figment of his imagination
Back at the post office the rock weighed in at 575 grams and Jorge is keeping the fragment of ice in his regrigerator.
The postman can at least be sure that the rock is not an unidentified flying object (OVNI). Luis Aparicio, of the Association of Ovni Research, says the fall of blue ice could have been the result of an atmospheric a phenomenon of some kind.
The stone also could not have fallen from aircraft, according to a spokesperson of TAP: "It does not seem very credible that it was ice from an airplane in this location because the planes are flying at a very low height and no longer transporting ice."
(Original headline: Postman finds mysterious blue stone of ice )
