The special strangeness in our time should by now be apparent to all.

A thick, “mysterious” mist descended upon a wide swath of the U.S. as 2025 began, hovering from Florida to the Mid-Atlantic and even up to states like Minnesota.

Was it all caused by simple meteorology: a sudden shift from unusual warmth to a frigidity unusual even for January?

When the cool air mixes with the warm moist air over the water, the moist air cools until its humidity reaches a hundred percent and fog forms.

We know that. We also comprehend that December holds title to foggiest month of the year on the East Coast of Florida, with an average of six foggy days for the month, followed by January (and often ice). Some years have seen long stretches, including a nine-day spell of dense fog back in 1944.

The current, lingering fog was prevalent from Jacksonville to areas south of Daytona Beach.

In St. Petersburg, it got stranger, with reports that the atmospheric moisture encircling the area smelled and tasted like “chemicals.”

Newspapers as far-flung as London reported it, saying, “Concerned citizens have flooded social media with videos of what looks like white particles raining down and swirling in the air. Some witnesses have also claimed the fog has triggered health symptoms similar to a respiratory illness. A Florida resident told DailyMail.com that they stopped at a gas station for about 10 minutes and began feeling ill. ‘Within about an hour, I kept sneezing over and over for about three hours, and my eyes were really puffy,’ she said.”

In Kansas were reports of alleged “chem-trails,” though these often are simple jet contrails, which in stock-still cold conditions can remain in the sky for inordinately long periods.

“The suspended moisture, when illuminated, often resembles particles”—but quite like this?:

Now everyone on TikTok is afraid of the fog pic.twitter.com/Trt4bOXEJN

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“Conspiracy theories about ‘the fog’ are picking up steam online as people report strange, thick mist followed by flu-like symptoms,” asserted the online Daily Dot. “The thickness of the fog, its appearance under a flashlight, and the respiratory symptoms some have reported after exposure led many to theorize about chemical attacks, bioweapons testing, and, of course, aliens.”

Widespread?

“Parts of Texas, Wisconsin, Iowa, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, North Dakota, Florida, and Minnesota were under fog alerts when the bizarre reports surfaced this week,” the reports informed us.

Conspiracy theories spread, some speculating that the fog might be somehow linked to the mysterious drone incidents that unsettled the nation in December.

One new theory suggested the U.S. government was responsible for it, possibly experimenting with a new biological weapon akin to Operation Sea Spray, a secret U.S. military experiment conducted in 1950 by the Navy to test the potential use of biological warfare agents and the vulnerability of American cities to such attacks.

That operation took place in San Francisco, where the military sprayed a large amount of a supposedly harmless bacterium, Serratia marcescens, along with Bacillus globigii, over the city and its surrounding areas to see how it would disseminate and to what result.

A sign of our mysterious time?

Conspiracies even proffered the idea that the drones were/are propelled by a gravitic energy source (anti-gravity) and sent up from the ocean waters by Chinese submarines or, again, extraterrestrials.

Or was the U.S. searching for missing nuclear material and perhaps even a stolen bomb?

(Futuristic experiments by deep dark segments of the military will be the focus of a future “Special Report.”)

At any rate, the fog was an uncanny ingress to 2025.

And by the by: what happened to all those drones?

They have disappeared, at least from the major news, as quickly as they initially descended, with the federal government oddly non-engaged.

[resources: Lying Wonders, Strangest Things]

[Footnote: social media blazed with it:

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