Originally Posted by init4fun

Leave it to Rob to go bringing good ol fashioned logic into this here thread ........

Without having any pieces of what was hit , from having been either embedded in the aircraft or positively identified as being from the incident found in the area on the ground , and of course no video of the incident , there really is no possible way to tell what it hit . Now there is no way also I'm gonna sit here and suggest the crew are lying or that both a Pilot and Copilot are seeing the same "floaters" * , if they say they hit something I believe them . There are penalties for filing false aviation incident reports , what Pilot or other flight crew are gonna risk their jobs filing a hoax report ? So they say they hit something , I believe that they believe they did , and they don't know what , I believe that too . Now the original assumption was of course a drone (just like how every case of the flu now is "possible Zika") when now the speculation has drifted to possibly being a plastic bag . If it was that small and yet still made a sound as it touched the front of the aircraft I honestly wonder if it could have been a Helium balloon with some kind of plastic emblem that might make a "tink" sound on contact ? You know , like one of those really big (like 3ish feet across) Helium Balloons with "HAPPY BIRTHDAY !" and a big ol plastic bow with the person's name on it at the closure where the string ties on to ? Hey , my speculation is just as good as the next guy's , especially since I've seen a LOT more Helium Balloons do the uncontrolled fly away thing than I've ever seen model aircraft do !

* Nice try on the "Two Pilots , One Floater" theory Sport , , , But , , No dice .....