Wynne Levelle, who lives near Jackson Elementary School in south-central Greeley, first reported the flying sausages to the Tribune on Thursday afternoon and even shot a photo of them. She's not sure what they were. She estimated the floating tube-like things to be about 10 feet long, floating over Greeley, first from the east to the west, then back again. It was about 2 p.m. Thursday.Levelle, a retired teacher, said she was on the phone talking to family in California when she looked out the window and saw the Floating Things in the Sky -- FTSs. (She wouldn't call them "UFOs.")"I told the person on the phone that things were floating over our house," Levelle said, laughing. "And they asked 'What have you been drinking?' "Levelle said she's glad for two things:1. She told her husband, Rick Mawson, a retired minister, and he looked up and also saw the floating tubes.2. She took a picture with her digital camera. Although the floating things are far away in the photo, she said that, up close, they didn't appear to be balloons. When Levelle's photo is enlarged, it appears the tubes could be a string of round balloons, but a quick check with area auto dealerships showed there were no reports of runaway balloons.At the Greeley-Weld County Airport, manager Mike Reesman said they had no reports of either floating things or UFOs. Reesman seemed a bit skeptical.
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