Strange object dropped from sky and smashed man's van

Composite LPG tank that maybe somehow got airborne? (Picture from the article: Do these things BLEVE or don’t they?)

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There are a couple of feds who care, but they’re mostly kept in the basement.

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I googled around some more about composite fuel tanks:

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Swamp gas will sometimes solidify inside a weather balloon. I expect that’s the explanation.

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It came from Tahiti? It’s a magical space program.

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I was thinking it was possibly Thor’s cereal bowl.

Explanation rejected. Does not involve blaming the Russians. Also, Occam is a secret agent from Moscow, and the US voting system has NOT sucked for 150 years, how dare you!

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Does it glow in the dark?

It looks carbon fiber soooooo… it’s Tony Stark’s bong?

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At least it wasn’t one of these. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos_954

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It’s a spaceship. Someone need to let the itty-bitty aliens out.

What terrestrial applications for carbon fibre pressure tanks are there? Cause that thing is definitely carbon…

Perhaps it’s Thor’s suppository? I mean, anyone who had to jam that in would be real thor!

Ouch. In more than one sense of the word.

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