“There’s something there,” the captain finally stated. “It might be messing with our electronics. It might be natural, or it might be man-made, but there’s no way we should fly back into it. If the weather were clear, we could work our way up, kind of get a feel for the boundaries of the thing. I don’t think it would affect the flight controls, but I can’t be sure, and I don’t want to risk it. If it’s some kind of weird electrical discharge—well, I don’t know.”