A disc-shaped piece of ice of unknown origin fell from the sky onto a golf course near Tokyo, Saitama prefecture , narrowly missing four players on the fairway.
The players at the Heisei Club golf course, just outside Tokyo, heard a loud thud on Wednesday and found a disc-shaped hunk of ice about 50cm in diameter, 15 cm thick and weighs 2kg that had broken into several pieces
Authorities are investigating the bizarre incident that took place on December 22, 2005.
A police spokesperson, Masahiko Kuwashima, said police investigators have asked the Transport Ministry to check into the possibility that ice stuck on an airplane might have fallen, and are waiting for the ministry's response. There have been several past reports of ice falling in Chiba prefecture near Tokyo's Narita International Airport. But there is no airport in Saitama, and the golf course involved on Wednesday is not known to be beneath a flight route. So far, no one has claimed responsibility for the mysterious incident.
The ice is being kept in a police department freezer.
