r/whatisit • u/a-lost-sketchbook • 11h ago

Serious answers only please! What is this thing falling out of the sky?

My friend and I went to try and find it, but we think it landed on a roof and couldn’t track it down.

Additional video in the comments.

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u/National-Pain-6838 11h ago

Looks like a 3 bladed propeller but it seems too light

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u/Blix420 8h ago

Maybe a drone propeller?

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u/Shrimps_Prawnson 11h ago

The legendary Threegull

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u/Jazzlike-Skin-5470 11h ago

Whatever it is, is light enough for the wind to give it lift

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u/a-lost-sketchbook 11h ago

That’s what’s throwing us off as well. The way it falls is so strange…

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u/TwelfTundra 10h ago

Corn husk floating on the wind is my guess. It's harvest season and I see the husk floating everywhere this time of year.

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u/AlienCornHusk13 8h ago

See, here’s a rational explanation! 

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u/TLyons-4 10h ago

That’s the foam rubber boomerang I threw back in 1987 taking its sweet time to come back

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u/Thebigwolfdude1 2h ago

Was that the boom of 87

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u/a-lost-sketchbook 11h ago

https://reddit.com/link/pdv2ew9/video/leagzpzpyhth1/player

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u/zorggalacticus 10h ago

Definitely a corn husk

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u/doggusmc 7h ago

Between 2 and 4s did you see what looked like a meteor? Gulls need to stay away from planes.

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u/doggusmc 7h ago

There is all kinds of thinks zipping by all the way through the video.

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u/Affectionate_Boss344 11h ago

Its a corn husk. Someone harvested a cornfield nearby and that corn husk flew a long way from home.

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u/Affectionate_Boss344 10h ago

Looking at the second video you can see more little corn bits floating around. Its part of a husk from a corn.

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u/AlienCornHusk13 8h ago

Yes, definitely not an alien corn husk UFO

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u/mind_the_umlaut 11h ago

Could be a disoriented or wounded large bird, like a seagull.

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u/a-lost-sketchbook 11h ago

That’s what we had thought initially, but the other footage we have makes it look too symmetrical and I couldn’t identify the shape of any bird.

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u/El_Scheffe 11h ago

A kite?

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u/AlienCornHusk13 8h ago

Could be..

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u/EmployerWide1123 10h ago

Lesbian Seagulls...

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u/AlienCornHusk13 7h ago

You know what, I think you hit the nail on the head with that one. They’re probably just on their way to their Subaru Crosstreck

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u/Fbomb77 10h ago

Looks like a bird maybe.

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u/AlienCornHusk13 8h ago

Wasn’t me

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u/porkchop-sandwhiches 11h ago

My last fuck.

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u/-BlankUsername 10h ago

Wat

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u/porkchop-sandwhiches 10h ago

Having a rough day.

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u/AlienCornHusk13 8h ago

Heyyy Mr. Sandwiches, sorry to hear you’re having a rough day! It will get better for you!!! Also, I think it could very well be your last fuck floating in the wind and NOT an alien corn husk UFO! 

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u/shpdoinkle 10h ago

Why could I hear the feather tune from Forrest Gump in my head!

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u/AdSquare3489 10h ago

Flat spin. Seems seagulls share this design fault with the F-14.

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u/avgJones 10h ago

Bird holding a too-heavy fish?

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u/TunderMuffins 10h ago

Looks like the blade off someone’s home weather or wind electric generator. Usually plastic and fairly light. If it’s really windy I could see it doing that.

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u/TunderMuffins 10h ago

Nvm. Watched the second video. It is indeed not what I suggested.

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u/AlienCornHusk13 7h ago

We need to keep theorizing and get to the bottom of this! Because, it’s definitely NOT an alien corn husk!

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u/Joe_Jobs_ 10h ago

Klingon Shuriken

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u/Sad_Percentage_4503 9h ago

I wouldn't really call that falling.

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u/notawolfdog 9h ago

I swear to God I thought turkeys could fly!

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u/MessageNeither4010 6h ago

Your mama's coochie lips after I smashed that

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u/shank732000 5h ago

That is a graphine oxide dispenser. You have been inhaling graphine oxide for decades and the nanoparticles are already in your body.

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u/hankmarmot3 10h ago

a seagull

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u/Spoonhook 11h ago

Kehar, stupid bunny

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u/Adventurous_Wave8339 11h ago

Homemade tri-blade boomerang.

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u/a-lost-sketchbook 11h ago

This is one of the explanations that we were contemplating as well

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u/SpaceRock3344 10h ago

Airplane part?

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u/Interplay29 10h ago

Probably some SpaceX debris

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u/Ratzink 10h ago

Looks like a drone

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u/131_Proof_Bud 11h ago

some diseased or injured bird.

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u/rrMLB 6h ago

It’s a certain type of bird they like doing that often where there dancing basically with it using energy on themselves letting the wind take em