On October 16, United Airlines Flight 1093, a Boeing 737 Max 8, was cruising at 30,000 feet on the way to Los Angeles from Denver when it was struck by something while flying above Moab, Utah. No one knows what it was. The pilot reportedly described it as “space debris.”

The space… thing cracked the upper-right corner of the cockpit windshield, breaking only one of the laminated sandwiched-layered panes. No official injuries were reported, though images floating around online suggest a pilot may have suffered some minor cuts.

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating. They’re analyzing the wrecked windshield in their lab and combing through radar, weather data, and flight recorder info. The working theory from unnamed sources who spoke with the aviation news site AvBreif.

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