Flying cornfield

[N276KM]

Has anyone else ever seen corn husks at-altitude? I was flying home from Hartford, WI yesterday and at 4000ft saw something pale spinning in front of me. I avoided it, and only realized what it was after I saw the second husk floating a little further ahead. How strange! None of the fields that I could see were being harvested, but I must've been at just the right altitude for the thermals to be depositing their debris from the surface.

Murphy

[rogerh12]

Yep, dust devils will pick them up (and other stuff too) here in kansas and send them way up. Up drafts will keep them there for a while, on hot days.

Roger

[awi55]

Run into a large bug at 8 to 9 thousand feet will really wake you up. After several evasive gyrations you see the large splat on the wind shield. :-)

[peanut]

I snagged a twix wrapper in the cowl of the 172 at 5500'. Was very strange.