Time: March 9th 2026 about 6:20 pm Location: Davenport, IA My friend and I were seated on a blanket around a quarry lake in Iowa, watching the sunset. A huge swarm, groups of a few hundred at a time, of red wing black birds start in from a point in the south. As they passed in front of us across the lake my friend spotted what looked, according to her, a balloon far off in the sky above us and the lake. She snapped a quick pic of it before she, for some reason, could not stop being distracted by the birds. We noticed a red tattered feather woven in her shirt just before the birds, so it was a weird coincidence that following that, even having spotted the object in the sky, she just could not stop paying attention to the birds. The weirdest thing was, in her videos, which I will link, the sky remained the brilliant blue it was in real life. If you look closely at her video, however, the moment her nonsensical camera angles briefly catch on the object in passing, her camera color changes for just a second before she moves on again. I wish I'd recorded her how she was when we got back up to the car after, because it was like she woke up again. It was odd. But if you watch my video you'll notice the sky is stormy in appearance...it was, in fact, not at all in real life. And towards the end when the color changes back to correct and the object disappears, you can see that it takes me a second to realize it had changed. At the moment it had, I had turned to check on my friend because she was falling asleep and it was the first time since I started recording that I had taken my eyes off the thing. First video is my perspective of the object. Other two are her videos that she was taking at the same time. The bird swarms, by the way, that had to number in the double digit thousands and didn't end until right when the object disappeared. The only thing I can think of causing the gray sky in mine is some kind of cloaking against technology because it was completely normal blue to the naked eye. And hers was aside from the flickers when it passed near the object https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZThvcBL24/ https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZThvcehLx/ What do you guys think? submitted by /u/Sudden-Ad-3434 [link] [comments]