Rods in Winter

One of the weirdest phenomena occuring over the past few years in cryptozoology has been the Roswell Rods phenomena. Great controversy, even in an arena filled with controversy like cryptozoology is, surrounds this alleged beastie. On one side you have the Jose Escamilla, who brought this crytid into the light so to speak, with hours and hours of video of some sort of fast moving creatures that appear to undulate through the air. On the other side you havedebunkers and cryptozoologists alike that claim they are nothing more than insects flying fast and being captured poorly with modern video equipment. Here’s a link to a good article explaining this position and detailing a study that showed how rods on video could be captured in nets – they turned out to be only moths and other insects.

There’s one thing I know for sure and that is cryptozoologists, even though they are jeered at from the likes of academia, are at their hearts scientists. Slightly more open minded, but still scientists. Truly, I can attest to the fact that scientiests are also some of the most closed minded people ever to walk the earth. Science becomes their religion, and even though you’d think a cryptozoologist must be a really liberal and open minded person, quite often, though not always, the opposite is true. And when they get a chance to debunk something they do it with zeal to the exclusion of new evidence just like any scientist, and sometimes I think this is just to try and gain a wee bit of respectability.

So now I submit something to you Strange Readers that I came across in the blogosphere. Here’s a great post on some alleged rod video captured in Western New York. It could easily be dismissed as an insect or even a bat at night. The video appears to have been shot with something like a Sony Handicam with Nightshot. I could be wrong on that, but it is most certainly some similar camera. The remarkable thing about it is that it was purportedly filmed in February. Ever been to New York in February? No insects. No bats – they’re all hibernating. It might be something else like a bird or even a ping pong ball shot at high velocity, but I’ll just have to trust the source at their word. Take a look and see what you think. If true it sort of debunks the debunkers.

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April 25th, 2007