Cryptozoology: Rods

This study demonstrates that all of the "rod" pictures on Jose Escamilla's www.roswellrod.com site show a "rod" length-to-speed correlation that is consistent with the motion blur pattern created by a flying insect, if the insect is videographed with a CCD camera using either 1/60 or 1/100 second exposures. The site also presents pictures of motion-blurred insects showing this same "rod-like" length-to-speed pattern, and showing that flapping insect wings can duplicate undulating or sinusoidal "rod" wing patterns when shot at these slow shutter speeds. Conclusion: Escamilla's "rods" are motion-blurred flying insects.

Rods are insects caught in the act of flying by a video camera. Some hoaxers or very imaginative people have been maintaining that rods are actually some sort of unknown life form of alien origin. But, according to Doug Yanega of the Entomology Department at the University of California at Riverside and a member of the Straight Dope Science Advisory Board, rods are

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