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 balloons may h

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