The Fox network photographer was detained over 4 hours by the FBI and the film sent to homeland security, (after it was broadcast nationwide on Fox), for his video of a jet taking off from an airport. A 100? ft flying object shot straight up towards the plane,(with wings), and just disappeared before it hit the clouds. The photographer was on all the morning shows and a few night ones. I think it was about 1994. (I still have the video) The FBI and Homeland couldn’t debunk the video. Trick photography? I don’t think so.
Yes. Yes, I do. People will do all kind of bollocks to get their faces on TV. Appearing on a TV show, even one that is aired on such illustrious and objective channels as Fox and Discovery, is evidence of nothing more than a desire to appear on a TV show.
Rods are demonstrably an artifact of the way video/photographic technology fails to perfectly capture images of quite ordinary winged animals in flight.
You’re talking about television stations. Have you ever been around the people that work in places like that? They’d sell their own mother to the gypsies for a chance at making a big scoop. To them they don’t care if it’s true or not. Half-wits ranting about conspiracy theories and alien bugs makes for good television.
Wow, it has been almost a decade since I have heard of any Rod spottings. I thought that went the way of Benevolent Angelic Space Aliens, or Killer Clowns in Vans as obsolete urban legends.
They would have, as this thread was dead about 9 years ago - until our Google-ing visitor turned it up and decided to rant about how apparently something that’s shown on TV must be real.
Rod Spottings is my porn star name.
There WAS no Homeland Security in 1994. Didn’t exist.
Oh it existed, you just didn’t have the security clearance to know about it.
Shhh, someone is listening…gotta go.
Rod Spottings are what is left in a hooker’s panties after a busy night.
Oh yeah, Rods are a total misunderstanding of photo/video artifacts - I have a picture of some Orbs, and I can tell from the way they are arranged that they too laugh at theidea of “rods”…
Best of all, my aluminium foil hat keeps my head dry during light showers, and snow falls . which attract the Orb creatures. they also like my camera flash, and refuse to let them slves be photographed unless I use it!
Regards
Captain (ret) El Fritzo-Bananaloaf
Photography also shows auras and ghosts that we can’t see with the naked eye. Tape recorders do as well. So do magneto-thingies.
The real question, then, is why we aren’t using magneto-thingies to enhance our knowledge of rods? :smack:
Do you mostly star in PSAs about condom use?
Cogswell Cogs?
Rod Zombie?
Y’know, Rob Zombie’s lesser known twin brother.
They aren’t risking their credibility for the same reason I’m not risking my multi-billion dollar fortune. Now, they do have a reputation, but that’s just reinforced by running stories like this.
Roswell Rods sounds like a 1950s teen gang who hold illegal street races.
Rod Argent was a Zombie. Coincidence? I think not! :eek:
Hell, yes. They do it frequently and often. It’s called entertainment, not news. As a photographer I find claims of “rods” to be anything other than a common photographic artifact absolutely ridiculous.
Wow…this is a REALLY old thread. I remember reading this one when I was still a lurker! 
Does anyone still believe in the mysterious ‘rods’ these days? I don’t remember even seeing one of those dippy In Search Of shows on this subject in a while.
-XT
Stupid woo ideas never die, they just come back to haunt us.