The odds of getting hit by a meteorite are roughly one in several trillion. Andrew Melville-Smith and his Tesla might have just won that unfortunate lotto.

The South Australian veterinarian was driving his Tesla along the Augusta Highway when something slammed into his windshield with enough force to make the glass ripple. “I thought we’d crashed, it was that loud, it was that violent, it was totally unexpected,” he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The impact left the glass warped and cracked as if it had melted. His car, still cruising in autopilot, kept going like nothing had happened.

Melville-Smith reported the strike to the South Australian Museum, which is now trying to figure out whether the projectile came from space, a plane, or the ground. If it turns out to be a m

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