In the past few days, three of these have appeared, seemingly from nowhere. (One was in my hand (!). One on my leg. Etc.)

I'm stumped. It feels like it's made of metal or a hard plastic. I vote metal. Appears to be blue. Slightly thicker at the ends. Always in this U shape. WHAT CAN IT BE??

(Please boost)

@Talyaa
Can we see a higher res picture with more thing, less white, please?

@MightyBigCar I cropped most of the white away but I don't know how to make it any higher res using my phone.

@Talyaa thanks for trying. If your camera won't focus when you move in really close there's not much more to be done. Unfortunately, JPEG artifacts are destroying the details of the mystery object, and that makes it hard to identify. What are its rough dimensions?

@MightyBigCar about 3mm at its widest point

@Talyaa Is that end to end or width of the strip (the narrow dimension). I'm guessing end-to-end.

@MightyBigCar yep end to end, sorry I wasn't clear

@Talyaa No problem - thanks for putting up with questions!

@Talyaa OK, so at first glance it looked like a ribbon connector from some the internals of some portable electronic device. But that doesn't explain why you've encountered multiples of the thing.