Sunday, January 13, 2008

Albany UFO - Rod Shaped Aerial Shot

The rods photographed in some video footage have been around since the advent of the digital video camera. There is speculation that they are bugs or birds that get caught in the zone in between the focal distances of close and far away. The automatic focusing mechanisms, using this explanation confuse small objects that are close to the camera, and give them the aspect of a large blurry object at a distance.

The other theory is much wilder, and seems to have a broad emotional appeal based on setting up a logical sequence of ideas. Very often these objects are transient, they are not actually seen until later on. On January 9th the History Channel, a cable show was broadcast "Creatures From The Fourth Dimension" about these objects known colloquially as "rods". The broadcast was part of the "Monster Quest" series and documents a number of sighting of these supposed "creatures". Some other people think they are unknown life forms or even some kind of minuscule weapon that has built in stealth capabilities to keep it out of sight.

We saw a West Coast news show about eight years ago that featured a small boy under a tree with one of these things buzzing around, which was caught on home video, which when played in slow motion, showed one of the rods moving around. And the news broadcasters were completely clueless. The arc of the flight of the thing could have been some kind of bee or large fly from the looks of the video since all the action took place under the tree's leaf canopy, not in open space. The object was only visible at slow motion speeds in a frame by frame view.

We did not watch the entire History channel broadcast, but this article indcates that the video in the link was part of the show. The link below to Kansas/Albany UFO story on video was presumably part of a mainstream NBC affiliate broadcast on KSN TV, where one of the station staffers caught something unusual while shooting on a video while tracking the passing of a passenger jet. The most interesting thing is that he was questioned by both local police and government agents about the tape, and he says he was subjected to a polygraph test. For our British Isles and our other international visitors, we will provide a map of where the video was shot:


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