FLYING ROD UFO?
If I happen to have my camera with me and I see an interesting sky, I will take pictures of dramatic clouds, stormy weather, or a nice sunset. Going through my photos, I noticed a pair of such photos with something odd, a streak. If it were one photo I might not have noticed, but the pair of photos caught my attention.
The pictures reminded me of a paranormal fad a number of years ago. Back then there were pictures of what appeared to be rods flying through the sky. This led to speculation about the nature of these photos’ “flying rods”. I recall some of the speculation…flying rods as a strange unknown form of life that flew so fast they were invisible to the naked eye, or extra-dimensional entities, or something possibly related to UFOs.
Eventually it was discovered these flying rods were simply flying insects that appeared as streaks when photographed. Since then flying rods became discredited. But today there are still stories and photos of cigar shaped UFOs flying around. The cigar UFO is a classic shape for an unidentified flying object.
The simplest explanation is the best explanation, so these photos should be the streak of a bug. Yet, these two pictures were taken a few seconds apart. It could not have been moving very fast. A UFO? If only I were so lucky.
April 5th, 2010 at 4:38 am
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April 6th, 2010 at 2:31 am
My friend and I had also captured one… It still fascinate me as I looked at it.. To think these creatures are not visible enough for the naked eye…
April 6th, 2010 at 2:50 pm
Hi Denz,
I did not see anything when I was taking pictures of the sky. How often to we ignore things in the sky? We just don’t pay attention. It could be useful to check out our many photos and see if we ever accidently caught an anomaly.
Dave
June 18th, 2010 at 8:04 pm
if the pictures were taken several seconds apart, it couldn’t be a “flying rod” due to the myth says they fly so fast they are invisible to the naked eye as said yourself “It could not have been moving very fast.”
June 20th, 2010 at 10:34 pm
Hi Mr. Kelly,
That is true. Flying rods are supposed to move too fast for the naked eye, and to capture them in two pictures should not be possible. Anyway, flying rods have been pretty much discredited as simply bugs. Maybe it was a bug. But it does not look like a bug. I am not sure what it is.
Dave
September 1st, 2010 at 5:55 am
There’s a whole bunch of Flying Rod pictures at this website, they seem to love Greater Vancouver.
September 2nd, 2010 at 1:09 am
Burnaby, you have some really interesting photos.
Dave
December 8th, 2010 at 7:36 am
Hi, I have recently captured a flying rod on 2 occasions, I have uploaded the individual pics into a video clip and loaded it to my u tube page, if you are interested, it would be great if you took a look……..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myT0KhR0oA8
cheers
chris
December 8th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
Hi Chris,
I checked it out and that is very interesting. Thanks for telling us about it.
Dave