Spider webs have appeared to be floating across Bay Area skies, and there's a logical explanation for the phenomenon.

NBC Bay Area recently received reports and several viewer videos showing white, sticky clumps of webbing floating in the air from Dublin to Gilroy and even as far south as Monterey.

Morgan Hill resident Marisa Flynn told NBC Bay Area Thursday that she has seen them while playing pickleball.

“We thought it was some kind of Halloween stuff floating around. They were almost like a cotton ball material. Big, clumpy and white,” she said.

The white clumps are exactly what they appear to be: spider webs. They are part of a process called "spider ballooning.”

After many baby spiders are born, they release tiny strands of silk that act as parachutes, letting them catch the bree

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