A weather balloon may have been the culprit that cracked a United Airlines plane’s windshield while the flight was en route from Denver to California, according to investigators.

United flight 1093 took off from Denver International Airport at 5:51 a.m. Thursday and was cruising at approximately 36,000 feet above Utah when its windshield cracked, according to flight tracking software FlightAware and federal investigators .

Now, a company responsible for manufacturing weather balloons and collecting atmospheric data is saying that one of their balloons likely collided with the plane, causing the damage.

WindBorne Systems , which has previously partnered with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on weather research, was first alerted to the fact that one of its bal

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