"A lot of them. At the wall, too. The person I showed your description to said that that was what you saw, and he said that it's weird that you can't see the gears now.

If you can't see the angels, either... he said that maybe the angel wanted you to see it, or that it was in the process of falling from being an angel, then it wouldn't be weird that you can't see the gears." Because ...something.