confusion: why do I see a state.apply in active jobs?

[gypsy....@sentient.ai]

I was looking at active jobs on my minions and this isn't the first time I've noticed a state.apply that noone really ran.

Am I missing something about how salt works? There is no scheduled task or cron to run it....

20161021123540108077:

    ----------

    Arguments:

    Function:

        state.apply

    Returned:

    Running:

        |_

          ----------

          cyon:

              24619

    StartTime:

        2016, Oct 21 12:35:40.108077

    Target:

        unknown-target

    Target-type:

    User:

        root