Marijuana package smashes through US couple's roof after falling from smuggling plane

As far as things going bump in the night go, this US couple take the cake after being woken by a 10kg package of marijuana, which fell from a drug smuggling plane and smashed through the roof of their dog kennel.

Arizona couple, Maya and Bill Donnelly, were sleeping on September 8 when a loud noise woke them up, reports ABC News in the US.

Their German Shepard’s doghouse has been split open by the falling marijuana package, which police said had likely fallen from an aircraft that took off from Mexico.

The package had smashed through the couple's carport roof, before landing in the dog kennel.

“We have seen ultralight [plane] activity in our town before, but never see a package that is assumed to be from an ultralight fall so close to the border,” Nogales police spokesman Robert Fierros said.

Nobody, including the couple’s dog, was injured in the incident.