| Flying Rod | |||
|---|---|---|---|
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| Naming | |||
| Others | Sky Rod, Sky Fish, Solar Entities | ||
| Binomen | None official | ||
| Morphology | |||
| Average length | Varies | ||
| Intelligence | |||
| Sapience | Non-sapient | ||
| Aggressivity | Harmless | ||
| Ecology | |||
| Habitat | Atmosphere | ||
| Diet | Unknown | ||
| Lifespan | Unknown | ||
| Subspecies | Unknown | ||
| Status | DD | ||
| Behind the Scenes | |||
| Universe | Real | ||
Various rods.
In cryptozoology and ufology, rods (sometimes known as "skyfish" or "solar entities") are said to be flying creatures, from a few inches to a few feet in length, that are invisible to humans, but visible to cameras, both film and digital, both still and video.
Overview
Their bodies are shaped like long thin rods, and their only appendages are wavy wings, one on each side, stretching the full length of their bodies. They move through the air by undulating these wings, like eels swimming through water. They are said to flit about in the air at such a high speed as to not be seen by the naked eye.
Videos of rod-shaped objects moving quickly through the air were claimed by some to be alien life forms or small UFOs, but subsequent experiments showed that these rods appear in film because of an optical illusion/collusion (especially in interlaced video recording).
On August 8/9, 2005, China Central Television aired a two-part documentary about flying rods in China. It reported the events from May to June of the same year at Tonghua Zhenguo Pharmaceutical Company in Tonghua City, Jilin Province, which debunked the flying rods. Surveillance cameras in the facility's compound captured video footage of flying rods identical to those shown in Jose Escamilla's video. Getting no satisfactory answer to the phenomenon, curious scientists at the facility decided that they would try to solve the mystery by attempting to catch these airborne creatures.
Huge nets were set up and the same surveillance cameras then captured images of rods flying into the trap. When the nets were inspected, the "rods" were no more than regular moths and other ordinary flying insects. Subsequent investigations proved that the appearance of flying rods on video was an optical illusion created by the slower recording speed of the camera.