I was out in my yard, and I noticed cottonwood fuzz already flying (pretty early this year!) and as I looked up at them, I noticed what I thought was a very high cottonwood fuzz. If you don't know what I'm talking about, the fuzz from cottonwood trees is VERY annoying! It forms big clumps in the trees, that constantly shed the fuzz, which are seeds connected to cotton-like fibers. When it really gets going, it will cover your roof, your lawn, accumulate in rafts in your doorway, clog your gutters, etc. Individual "fuzzies" float with the wind; imagine a very loose, small bit of cottom; it flies like feathers. Anyway, I looked up at the very high one, and realized it wasn't a cottonwood fuzz, but some odd thing super high up. It didn't really seem to be moving around when I first saw it, but a few seconds later, it darted across the sky, so I thought it must be a satellite that was catching the sun light at the right angle for me to see it. It went across about half the sky in just a few seconds, so was way too fast to be a jet. But then, it slightly jagged in its trajectory; like a parenthesis along an otherwise straight line. I've never seen anything that I didn't think was either just a jet or a satellite, this was definitely a UFO to me. Anybody have any ideas on what this was, or seen anything like it elsewhere?
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There are a bunch of those trees in my neighborhood, I know exactly what you mean! It looks like snow in the summer! I've seen similar to what you have seen before that I eventually wrote off as a bird. Could it have been a drone possibly? I have seen other things that I cannot explain, like this one evening I was out on my deck and I saw out in the not too distant distance a red light moving straight up. Almost what a Chinese lantern looks like, except it was a very deep red. Now this was in winter and I live at a pretty high latitude where the sun sets about 4pm. This was around 9 pm, much later than any satellites would be reflecting the sun, especially from the north. The direction I was looking is not habitable, I am talking about unforgiving mountains and an ice field, the closest community in this direction is almost 80 miles away. It floated up and up and up, I called for my girlfriend (now my wife) and tried to point it out to her but she couldn't see it against the background of stars, it was pretty faded at that point and I lost it too. I have been watching satellites since I was a kid, and this was no satellite. I even have a satellite app on my phone that I can tell you exactly when a 'iridium flare' will show up, and there was no visible satellites in that direction. Could it have been a satellite? Sure, if it was, it would be going due south over the north pole.
We have them around our neighborhood and it explains my itching eyes and sneezing. I'd forgotten about them, thinking jasmine is the culprit.