Federal Aviation Administration investigators determined that a 35-pound metal pipe that struck and damaged a car parked on the Maine State Pier came from a tugboat, not an airplane as officers from the Portland Police Department initially believed.Portland police said that officers were dispatched at about 10:10 p.m. Wednesday for a report of a damaged vehicle at the Casco Bay Lines parking lot.Officers found the pipe had struck a car, shattering its rear window and denting the liftgate. According to police, it appeared at the time that the object may have fallen from a plane based on the extent of the damage and where the car was parked.The FAA was notified and conducted an investigation, and the agency determined the pipe broke off from a tiedown cleat on a nearby tugboat. According to the FAA, one of its inspectors visited the Casco Bay Lines ferry terminal and spoke with the tugboat operator.Neither the FAA nor the Portland Police Department provided any further details about how the pipe came off the tugboat.The owner of the car that was damaged, Cam Malette, spoke about the incident with sister station WMTW on Thursday. Watch the interview in the video player above.Malette, a Casco Bay Lines deckhand, said he parked his Volkswagen Jetta SportWagen in the Casco Bay Lines lot and was told by staff at the terminal that an object hit his car and destroyed the liftgate.Malette initially thought his car had been vandalized, but he said he was told by police that the vehicle was hit by something that fell from the sky."(The police) came to the consensus that they think the only way there possibly could have been that much damage is if it fell from the sky. And the whole time I was thinking: 'Well, how am I going to tell my dad that my car is destroyed by something that fell from the sky?'" Malette said."The damage was just incredible and it couldn't have been anything else other than falling from a good distance," said Malette's father, Anthony Malette.Luckily, no one was hurt by the falling pipe and Malette is still able to drive his car. He now has collision wrap film over his blown-out back window."If that hit someone, it would have been tragic. Thankfully, it just hit my car in the parking lot," Cam Malette said.