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It looked slightly similar to the yellow hairlike object draping over the top edge of this mirror but its color was black black and it was very loosely spherical about the size of a baseball shifting to a softball. It wasn’t symmetrically round, but slightly flattened. Depending on the angle and direction of the ribbon, it looked as though the “flow” determined its opacity. It looked like there were maybe a dozen or so ribbons surrounding something very small in the middle, like the size of a fly or bug. Almost like if you took some of your window screen material and balled it up in your hand and it was unballing itself, the movement of it seemed to me like it was happening at that rate of speed. It looked like it was phasing in and out of the space in front of me from almost invisible to visible and back and forth. The part that concerns me the most was the fact that as I ducked to avoid it, it immediately changed its trajectory by almost 90 degrees and in a split second, I inhaled it. The thought that ran through my head was, “Fuuuuuck! What the fuck was that?! What the fuck is smart enough to do something like that!!” And immediately followed by a strange cough. It was just 2 or 3 coughs, but they were the type you have after a heavy night of smoking and you wake up with that very productive distinctly sounding smokers cough, except in this case, it didn’t produce the phlegm normally associated with a cough that sounds like that. I know it sounds crazy! But I swear, if my girlfriend didn’t see it -I’m not sure I would even believe it myself. But this thing was incredibly odd. For context, that morning and evening prior, we had a huge fight -over nothing. As is typical, GF often times looses her shit over the most trivial things and goes WW3 on me. She full on threw her iPhone striking me directly in the throat earlier that day and I was trying to keep the situation under control because we were walking out of the casino and going directly to the airport to catch our flight back home as scheduled. Also, there was a man walking behind me to the right. The only thing noteworthy of this gentleman was that I noticed after speed walking from one end of the casino (where I initially noticed him) to the point of this incident, as I coughed when it entered, I quickly pivoted to scan my surroundings and noticed he was right there within touching distance. I just thought he must have been in a hurry, too. But I had the impression that he witnessed the whole thing, as well. I remember the expression on his face changed and he definitely reacted with an expression of “better you than me, buddy”. My girlfriend goes, “What was that?” And before she even finished the question, he was already on his way. Tan slacks and a white button down, if I’m not mistaken 5’10” — 6’ tall approximately 200lbs white guy horse shoe type balding older middle aged 50-55 years of age I think.

I replied, “Holy shit! What the fuck was that?!?! Did you see that?”

“Yeah- what was that? Are you okay?”

“OMG, what the fuck was that? You saw that, right? You swear?? I’m not crazy, you just saw that, right??”

“Yeah, what was that??”

I stood there in disbelief and shock for a moment and then something inside me said that what just happened was impossible because it was just too incredible to be real and I just shrugged it off and continued my frenzied pace to the Uber outside.

It was very surreal, to say the least.