What is this?
It has been flying around my screen for hours…
You only uploaded a still-frame JPEG, so I’d say a pole, lol.
But the most common ‘something floating’ is a dust particle close to the lens under IR light.
Welcome back @cailyn_j
If you are referring to this… Just your friendly neighborhood Spider Web.
Lightening up the whole image you get…
Focusing in on @R.Good s screen shot you get…
Which I agree is a spider web strand that is reflecting the individual IR leds back to the camera.