Cannot see flash drive on finder

My cursor was moving over the flash drive icon in Finder.
I clicked on the icon. I think Finder believed I was trying to move the icon elsewhere.
The icon vanished in a puff of smoke.
Now I cannot see it on Finder.

Do you mean the sidebar in a Finder window? Dragging an item off that (I don't want to try with a drive to test, sorry) will result in it disappearing in a cloud. You can plug the flash drive in again to have it mount.

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