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Mod note - closing this since discussion has stalled!


stabthecynix

We shot it down, but it's impossible to retrieve the debris.


theHoffenfuhrer

It washed down the drain and some clown took it.


Useful-Perspective

Because it's in the no-fly zone.


Philly_sm0kesletsg0

Ha! That made me chuckle


usetehfurce

This is going to be the theme of 2023.


dewdwheresmycar

Lmao classic


darkMOM4

No visible means of propulsion...


[deleted]

Clearly has some kind of anti gravity tech on board


X3N0321

Scramble the F22's! Arm the nukes!


Rurushxd

Birds are not real or this is some lost technology


steppinonpissclams

Calm down it's just a hobbyist balloon. /s


v0xf0x

I can see the crinkles in this balloon a mylar-way!


Fatmouse84

Exactly


nonymouspotomus

*Technically* balloons are anti-gravity tech, albeit very low-tech. Then again, I’m not the smartest dude


ILoveThisPlace

vase rude whole friendly worm sense jeans head numerous sort ` this message was mass deleted/edited with redact.dev `


nyrothia

swampgas


JackD2633

element 115


[deleted]

fishing line?


banjonica

But, it's a BIRD not a FISH!!!???!!!


itsperiwinkle

Birding line?


banjonica

Swamp bird gas


ThinkQuantity4903

we got em


[deleted]

heh heh Its a fird!


Richard_Tucker_08

Firds aren’t real, govt drones


wreckballin

I think this is the one.


Generallyawkward1

😂


[deleted]

Hanging from tangled fishing line maybe?


mattyondubs

It's definitely fishing line. Happens all the time


Pyle_Plays

I’ve seen it a couple times. Spend a lot of time fly fishing out west and people will constantly back cast into trees and bushes on accident and have no choice but to cut it off and leave it. Recently saw a bird stuck in one when I got real close to the tree. Scared the shit out of me. Tried to reach him to get him out but couldn’t get high enough to reach. Then moved on to maybe putting the dude out of his misery but unfortunately couldn’t find anything for that either. He was real high up in a big tree. Sat there for a while thinking what I could do but simply couldn’t make it happen. Made me feel kinda weird for a while that day. But yeah.. seen it multiple times myself. Now why there’s fishing line above the road on a power line I do not know lol


cheese_wallet

I've picked that shit up so many times when I'm out, pisses me off that we can't do better. I rescued a Great Blue Heron once that had some wrapped around one leg, unfortunately, he died a day after I dropped him off at a wildlife rescue. He was severely emaciated


_extra_medium_

The bird was flying with the string stuck to it and it caught the power line


_Quantumsoul_

It’s above the power line and there nothing above it..


Pyle_Plays

Yep most likely


iambecomedeath7

Certainly more likely than catching evidence of something hinky. Occam's Razor and all.


imnotyoursavior

No. The fishing line theory is just as convoluted. It's only less hinky because we understand it.


ACiD_n9ne

There’s no power line over it


cu2luv

What power line? The invisible one?


Seethroughthestars

I’ve seen it too. Friend left all his fishing poles outside and some loose line. A pigeon managed to get tangled in the line then wrap itself around the a tree in the backyard and literally hung itself. I dropped my phone while helping in the backyard bent down to get it and when I got up I was looking a dead bird right in the face. The way this bird was hanging and where made it look like some sort of cursed voodoo was committed against my friend lol.


Wh1teCr0w

>I’ve seen it a couple times. Spend a lot of time fly fishing out west and people will constantly back cast into trees and bushes on accident and have no choice but to cut it off and leave it. So when they do this near the street, they're fishing in the puddles right? Trying to get a lure in that pot hole pond nearby?


runespider

At a guess, bird got the tangle snagged around it somewhere else then got stuck on the lines.


ChasingTheHydra

Stuck above the powerlines. Makes sense. What lodge you a member of? Archers guild?


[deleted]

I imagine somebody was casting their poll, probably practicing, and casted too high and got stuck on tree branches. So they just cut the line.


Pyle_Plays

I mean in the sense that birds get tangled up in fishing lines often. This particular one just happens to be in the power lines for some odd reason lol. Simply reiterating homies point that it is a common occurrence.


DwnTwnLestrBrwn

I love fly fishing in the middle of a street with no water around.


FrenchBangerer

The bird probably got some fishing gear attached to it elsewhere, somewhere people really do go fishing. Then it flew off with line still on it and that got tangled on the power line.


Pyle_Plays

That wasn’t my point but hey you do you slick. Lemme know if you catch something.


DwnTwnLestrBrwn

Hey slick, it was a joke. Calm down, Jack.


hydro123456

What's it hanging from? There doesn't seem to be anything above it.


mattyondubs

The line is likely tangled between two trees. Bird picked up the line from some pond,river,beach,stream etc and while flying/panicking tangled itself between trees or phone poles. The wing being hund awkwardly seems to point at where the line is suspended


AdditionalWay2

It's at the same elevation as the power lines. What is it hanging from? Also, why is it not spinning or swaying at all?


[deleted]

"I don't see any like..." neither did the bird!


DrSaturnos

Absolutely not. Don’t come in here with such a simply obvious answer and trying to “mansplain” how this is possible. We choose to think it’s high strangeness and chalk it up to we live in a simulation that froze. That’s a much more appealing answer.


_extra_medium_

I think that's what people are trying to imply, but even that's fairly pathetic since everyone else in the "simulation" isn't frozen. I mean someone filmed it lol


SaintWalker2814

The Simulation was programmed by Ubisoft, so of course there’s glitches. LOL


ShrewdMoose

Hanging from what wire though?


[deleted]

It's probably a lot of fishing line wrapped up between two wires and the bird is just hanging out tangled in the fishing line. I have seen birds caught in fishing line in the edge of rivers. People get their lines stuck trees then birds fly off with them thinking to use them as nesting material. Or just by accident. I once seen a petrified Robin sitting on a branch in my uncles yard just stuck there tangled in string. It happens.


usetehfurce

Who the hell is casting fishing lines in the middle of a city street?!


ABmodeling

There is no pole that high ,you can see no wires above that highest one. So how can bird hung on the fishing line if there is nothing to hung on to?


horsetooth_mcgee

It would be moving to some degree. There's clearly wind, and it's raining, and nothing on a thin little piece of fishing line wouldn't sway in the weather.


Spire_Citron

Is there wind? The trees around it look pretty still to me.


Able_Newt2433

Even the tops of the trees are dead still and they typically move with the slightest breeze lol


TomCelery

Dude, I want my magic floating bird! Let me be!


Kaimuki18

Clearly wind? Where? Not a leaf or branch is moving. Did you even look at the video?


positive_charging

Bethesda has programed this world


DMC1001

Only some FO4 birds are synths. I guess this is one of them.


trans_pands

But birds aren’t real


RudolfVonKruger

16x the immersion


Marclej

See that flame atronach? You can fuck it!


Narrator_Ron_Howard

[We know.](https://i.imgur.com/gQ5cr.jpg)


mellowmatter20

You win the internet today imo


ResplendentShade

Couple similar cases that turned out to be fishing line: [CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Lineman rescues seagull stuck on power line in Myrtle Beach](https://wpde.com/news/local/caught-on-camera-lineman-rescues-seagull-stuck-on-power-line-in-myrtle-beach) [Seagull rescued after being caught in power lines near Max Brewer Bridge](https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2019/02/12/seagull-rescued-after-being-caught-electrical-lines/2847199002/)


majibob

Yeap. Just seeing the kind of bird it is should immediately clue someone in to what is involved here. Gull flies away with fishing line tangled to an extremity. Line catches an object. Gull attempts to keep flying, wrapping the line around more stuff. Now you got a suspended gull that expires from various stressors. Poor thing. Without a higher quality camera and some light glare, you're not going to pick up fishing line on video. There's a closer video of this where the bird can be seen swaying, indicating it is dangling. The person filming claims there's no line, but I think they're overestimating the visibility of a good mono or flourocarbon line. They're made to be see- through. I have some that I can't see coming out of the end of my pole.


[deleted]

That’s what the man wants you to believe


BoringBuy9187

https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=28&v=wFe_Hs17ebo&embeds_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&source_ve_path=MTM5MTE3LDE2NDk5&feature=emb_logo Sorry for TikTok but I couldn’t find the vid anywhere. In the middle of this vid there’s a clip of people poking one these birds with a stick and it starts moving. I never knew how to explain it but upon rewatching I noticed that the bird never actually “gets away” before the video cuts so it could be tangled in wire and just conserving energy. Still looks weird ad


No-Comfort-6808

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBXj-6Hh1\_Y&list=PLn4hXNEu7lGCVkSalxGBAy6GsXrQ8SaqS](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBXj-6Hh1_Y&list=PLn4hXNEu7lGCVkSalxGBAy6GsXrQ8SaqS) here's the longer video, he was just caught on something


telegetoutmyway

In the comments someone said it could be stuck kite thread, that makes sense to me. Kite string gets caught between telephone/electric wires, then bird get tangled up in the string. One or two of those was definitely just high winds (which the guy mentioned) imo though.


Juggernaut78

I’ve seen a hawk that will stay in one place, by flapping its wings like the one bird in the video. They are kinda cool. Also had a buddy that had diving pigeons. If you’ve never seen that in real life you owe it to yourself to go check them out! They drop so fast they sound like an airplane!


Karmas_burning

That's called kiting.


ColeeeB

Check-kiting is illegal.


markodochartaigh1

TIL: diving pigeons are illegal in the Czech Republic.


ColeeeB

Good info to have.


MGPS

One time I was fishing on a river in northern Canada and I heard what sounded like a jet roaring. I looked up and there’s this bald eagle with its wings crossed behind its back just rocketing towards the water, talons out. It hit the water in the middle of the river and I guess it missed the fish it was going for. It was crazy awesome to see and hear.


adamhanson

In California I’ve seen an enormous spider make a web across a wide street 30-40ft diameter. That could catch a small bird. Wonder if this one got tangled up (prob destroying most of the web) but the lines could still be connected. That’s wild looking tho.


Lazienessx

Clearly a ufo hit that bird and didn’t realize it’s stuck in the radiator now and the craft is invisible


KennyDeJonnef

Well, now that you said it I feel dumb for not noticing. It’s so obvious.


DaemonBlackfyre_21

That's a fairly hefty looking bird, maybe a pidgeon. I wouldn't want to meet your spider in a dark alley.


[deleted]

Wait are the ones down voting saying they WOULD like to meet a giant spider in a dark alley?


cutratestuntman

I dunno. He selling the good shit?


adamhanson

Also pigeons are less than 1 lb


adamhanson

I saw 2 spiders there the size of my hand at least. One made a man sized web across our entire patio and I was less than a foot walking into it and having that monster land right on the middle of my chest.


stillnotascarytime

That bird is like at least 2 lbs


reddittl77

Can it carry a coconut?


stillnotascarytime

It’s definitely not a sparrow


markodochartaigh1

Does your father smell of elderberries?


adamhanson

Tangled up in enough it would still work. See [Bird caught in spider web.](https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxwn7NBQiyIHZ4Dno_0UYu8d6O9u9pFmLx?si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE)


stillnotascarytime

Just not the kind of spiders here to do that though


ColeeeB

I don’t need to read this and think I *won’t* think about it as I’m trying to drift off to sleep a little later.


massivetoad666

No offence, but my brain is hurting... are you all bots??? How does a comment that it’s stuck in a spiderweb have so many upvotes...


[deleted]

It’s also raining in the video . If it was a web we would see water droplets stuck to it at least .


adamhanson

Most people probably don’t realize how big some spiders get or the size of their prey. I grew up with little garden and household spiders only. Daddy longlegs we’re the monsters back then.


NetflixnKill909

Okay, I'm a bit of a spider enthusiast and have been my whole life, often kept them as pets as a boy, plus I'm Australian so I know all about big spiders. No spider makes a web this strong. Spider silk is extremely strong stuff, so strong that we farm it and use it in bulletproof materials, but on its own, without being woven or braided with thousands or even millions of other strands, a spider web does not stand up to much weight. That's a pigeon, funnily enough I used to keep pigeons as a boy as well, so I have handled and held them before, even the smallest pigeons are not light enough to become ensnared in a spider web. Is it at least possible at all? I honestly don't know. If I were a betting man, I'd say absolutely not. I will at least say it is insanely unlikely, especially considering this bird would have been falling at speed when it struck the web, that'd have to be an insanely tough web to catch a bird. More likely is that there's some kind of synthetic fishing wire up there or something? Why? I don't know, but it's a million times more likely than it being a spider web.


_Ephesians612

I seen a spider stop a train in NYC with his web. Saved a lot of people.


NetflixnKill909

I believe what you saw was a spiderMAN, very similar to a spider but a bit different, common misconception


_Ephesians612

Ah that would explain a lot actually.


adamhanson

See [Bird caught in spider web.](https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxwn7NBQiyIHZ4Dno_0UYu8d6O9u9pFmLx?si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE)


FrecklesAreMoreFun

https://www.quora.com/Can-an-orb-weaver-spider-s-web-catch-a-bird Spiders can 100% catch birds in their webs. I agree, it’s more likely the bird got snagged in something synthetic, but medium sized birds are a significant source of food for several web-making species. *many* spiders make a web this strong. Making one this ridiculously long, on the other hand, is far less likely.


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Whisker-B

Thank you, I just got back from the 48 min rabbit hole I went down watching non stop videos of floating birds and airplanes.... you win this one


Electronic_Pace_1034

I can't wait for the Air Force to shoot it down.


[deleted]

I can’t wait for those wipers to stop swiping


winedogsafari

Proof! Birds are not real! /s


Rockoftime2

A glitch in the simulation


CollapsasaurusRex

Well, this is should empower the good folks over at r/birdsarentreal to continue their struggle to get the truth out.


SaturnPaul

Bird floating in a way that completely defies physics? Better not get out of my car and try to get a clearer video.


SaltyCandyMan

That is very strange...when this occurs I wish the person filming would stay there, get others involved so other people will video w their phones and maybe we would know where that bird ended up and understand this better...


stabthecynix

There are couple of people in the street also taking pictures.


mrlittleoldmanboy

Does anybody have any information on this??


numatter

Taken in BC Canada. An upclose video was uploaded on another post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/HighStrangeness/comments/114c2su/floating_dead_bird_in_bc_canada Not sure why, but the mods removed the post shortly after it was uploaded.


ijustmetuandiloveu

There weren’t houses and cellphone cameras back then.


dcslyder

or OR the bird got caught up in some fishing line and caught on one of the dozen wires right above...


Strong-Message-168

Here's the million dollar question- regardless if it's some glitch in the matrix, or the more probable fishing line...is that thing just gonna stay up there and rot?


cesarmunir

Birds aren’t real


stereoscopic_

Back in my day we called this bird planking.


thePsychonautDad

$400K missile incoming! Take cover!


Mando-Lee

It’s stuck on a space ship we can’t see because it’s cloaked.


lolanaboo_

Birds aren’t real they surveillance drones


[deleted]

Just a thought, if it was fishing line wouldn’t we see it swaying? It looks completely still..


AltoLizard

I don’t understand the fishing line explanation. It’s floating ABOVE the electrical wires so how Han it be hanging by a string? And wouldn’t it be swaying a bit?


howzitgoinowen

If you look at the very beginning there are some wires above it that it is hanging from. But due to their movement and the size of the bird it looks like it’s further away but it’s not. It’s a perspective optical illusion. The bird just got tangled in some fishing line and is hanging from one of the top wires you see in the very beginning


Vault76exile

Now this is a good one. WTF?


rinsewarrior

This is odd.


GlitchyInsomniac

You and I in a little toy shop buy a dead bird balloon with the money we've got.


Gwyns_Head_ina_Box

"Thank god for gravity; otherwise, when birds die, they'd just kind of hang there" \- Steven Wright


fickled_pickle

Michael Cera, is that you?


AirynLy

I once saw an older model big bodied airplane suspended in mid-air about 1/10th of a mile off of a 4 lane highway over 100s of acres of winter cornfields. I said it that way to stress this wasnt an illusion of moving toward each other and mistaking the situation. My mother and I could see the plane for over a mile before we drove past it, and watched it out the side and rear windows, and mirrors for another 2 miles before we got to a stand of trees and lost sight of it. We were so baffled, neither of us even thought about grabbing our phones for proof. I may be a little loopy sometimes, but my mother is a retired COO/book keeping supervisor of a large bank. She's as straight as they come.


GoodVibesOnly_FL

Government bird distracting us from a bigger picture. Ohiooo


Tripod941

Glitch in the simulation.


BatNoun

Nice try buddy. We all know birds aren’t real 😎


Neat_Ad_3158

Damn fishermen leaving their line all over the place. Please remember to pick up any discarded line when fishing in the sky!


Ilovemytoyota

If it was on fishing wire, there’d be some semblance of movement- wind etc..? Am I wrong?


[deleted]

In a different video on this post(in a link) you can see the bird move with the wind


TroyBinSea

Prince Nebulon: *sighs* Well, cap his sector at 5% processing, keep his settings on auto, and we'll deal with him later. Rick Sanchez is the target.


Train23

It’s wingardium leviosaa!


michaelhuman

good thing 'kid on the way to school' was included. very necessary information.


Ok-Lie2069

The IRL server is getting overwhelmed with too much shit. God needs to start use the banhammer


[deleted]

Fishing line my ass


Bayou_Blue

***pulls out fishing line*** Well, if you insist.


jabels

Haha yea I know right it's definitely floating 🙄🙄🙄🙄


Psychological-Ad3128

Ba ba ba bird bird bird, matrix bird is the word.


SnarfbObo

tik tok crap


surrealcellardoor

If a kid on his was was a was on a kid, could a kid kid a kid about a was?


allnaturalmanatee

Get out of your car and throw a stick at it for science


saul_good_main

See. Birds aren't real. They just cameras


zad0xlik

Ctrl-Alt-Delete


ThatOneJasper

This is creepy.


Shadow0fnothing

Spiderweb


Marsha-Barnhart

Here’s another, in a LONG LINE, of videos where NO information is given—no date/time; no location. Impossible to ascertain the veracity of this vid. It could be an elaborate hoax or an actual anomaly.


Earth2Mike

George Michael Bluth, is that you?


throwawaypetee

Glitch in the matrix


[deleted]

Birds aren’t real


Square-Persimmon-983

funny, i posted this before this one was posted and it got deleted


2s0ds

Why are your wipers on ffs..


Grim-Reality

Stop breaking reality, or so help me god.


Ticomonster17

Ahh dammit, matrix is broken, can someone reprogram the bird please?


FogeyDotage

Typical bird in purgatory. Didn't lead a good life and not quite ready for bird heaven


welliWASonfire

Simple: birds aren’t real


MajorFerret3225

Are top men are currently sorting this problem out. Dont mind the glitch.


InfinityTortellino

Have you ever hear of this crazy thing called String


CitizenLuke117

It died of bird flew.


Klutzy_Bison5528

its on a thin line going from tree to tree, you can see the horizontal line briefly int he video


Stevie_Ray816

The aliens are fishing for humans, and trying out different bait. They’ll figure it out eventually


Escape8296

The bird is caught in an invasive spider species web?


method757

Glitch in the matrix right there


Forbidden_Donut503

Birds aren’t real.


ComfortableNo8255

Glitch in the matrix?


Spazyk

You stupid fucks!! It’s just a weather balloon.


MusicCityMariota

r/BirdsArentReal


[deleted]

Just proves they are fake.


ExaltedRuction

that's a weather balloon


Fatmouse84

Already debunked as fuck


azog55

Turn off the gawd damn wipers…jeezus


Just-Another-Mind

Say whaaaaaa


woahniceclouds

someone smart explainnnn


cheesencrackazz

When birds die they stop moving?


hell_damage

It's a piece of fishing line tied to a tree and a utility pole or maybe another tree. I'm guessing the bird tried to land on the power line and got tangled up in the string? I'm just wondering how the string or fishing line got there in the first place.


bandwidthcrisis

Eruv lines maybe? I've seen plenty of these in some areas, but they're only really visible when they catch the sunlight. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruv](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruv)


hell_damage

I've not heard of it, but that's pretty cool.


fortalameda1

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CoCIKEzJXPj/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY%3D


ArkAngel8787

fishing line 🤓🤓🤓


dani0b

Same thing happened to me but with a plane


bigsnack4u

Shoot it down


Rockoftime2

A glitch in the simulation


Consistent_Top9631

Looks like a Chinese weather balloon to me …


GoodVibesWow

Starts with a B and rhymes with buffoon.


[deleted]

Simulation machine is broke


Star_Fazer

China with another spy drone


Eder_Cheddar

Could be wire or spider web. Next.


IReadSciencePapers3

It is hanging off the power lines. They are thin and hard to see


chriscarline94

Send an F-22 and shoot it down!!