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.
If there's any non-alien explanation it's that light from the Sun was refracting off some upper atmosphere moisture.
swamp gas
No, not from your description. But we may all be witness to more things like this in the near future.
And weirder than the change in trajectory once it got moving, is that it didn't seem to be moving when I first saw it! (it wasn't moving enough to appear different than the cottonwood fuzzies)
I saw all sorts of weird things in the 70's. The tracers were my favorites!
Me too! Riding as passenger through the city in the middle of the night was something else.
if it was brown it might some shit flying out of AZ
Drugs are bad - M'kay?
No drugs; if so, the thing would have had multi-colored trails :)
My girlfriend and I saw a UFO a few months ago. We were riding on the back of a friends golf cart in their neighborhood, and I was commenting on how much of a beautiful day it was, looking at the sky. Then, I saw this little stationary speck in the sky, which was bright white, and shaped like a grain of rice. I told my girlfriend to look and she saw it, then turned my head to tell my friend to pull over and stop so we could get a better view. When I turned back, it was gone - it just disappeared. It was pretty wild to see something like that.