Although they have been captured on film and video hundreds of times, no one knows what these peculiar, mysterious things really are. And you can easily videotape them yourself.

They may be all around us... in the sky, in the water, even in our homes. They have been captured only on film and videotape. No one knows what they are, where they come from, whether or not they are alive, and they have never been touched or seen at rest.

They are called "rods," "skyfish" and sometimes "solar entities." Although the video evidence is compelling that they are quite real and probably living creatures, they are completely unknown to science - a fascinating and baffling mystery.

Skyfish were first documented by filmmaker José Escamilla, who discovered them by accident. In 1994, Escamilla had videotaped a "conventional" UFO near Midway, New Mexico. Fourteen days later, while seeking to photograph the UFO again, he instead captured a flying object that was not a vehicle of any kind. At first he thought it was just an insect or bird. When he examined the film frame by frame, however, it became clear that what he had captured on film was something unknown. Later, more distinct images were captured while Escamilla was filming cliff jumpers at a deep cave in Mexico. When he developed the film, small flying things could be seen zipping around the divers at a high rate of speed - so fast that they weren't seen with the naked eye.

The enhanced frames of film revealed that the flying thing appeared to be rod-shaped with two undulating wings or appendages along the length of the body and which gave it the appearance of swimming through the air. Escamilla dubbed them "rods" and has since filmed and videotaped them dozens of times. And after introducing them to the public through his website, roswellrods.com, he has received further reports and video and photographic evidence from other parts of the US and around the world. The strange flying enigmas have also turned up in documentary footage, TV news shots and even feature films.

Are They Alive?

Without a specimen in hand to examine, it's impossible to determine whether or not skyfish are living organisms, but it's Escamilla's best guess that they are. The video evidence certainly makes them seem so. They move through the air like insects or birds, sometimes darting around objects with a kind of animal intelligence - but at a speed far greater than any known insect or bird. How fast? Analysis of film and video of skyfish from around the world indicate that they can be moving as fast as 150 to 1,000 miles per hour - faster than the speed of sound.

How big are they? The same analysis indicates that they might range in size from just a few inches to perhaps over a hundred feet in length! How could something that large be unknown? That's part of the skyfish mystery, yet there they are on video.

Although most skyfish have been seen in the air outdoors, they have also been photographed and videotaped indoors and even underwater. A photograph displayed on Kitty's Kitchen website appears to show a skyfish in mid-flight ready to pass through a doorway in her home. And a TV news report on Escamilla from KCOP Channel 13 includes clear footage of a skyfish swimming in a stream, indicating that they are equally at home in the water.

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Is what we see all around us all that there is???

The human eye is limited to what it can see, so is there a lot more there that it cannot see.

I wonder if some animals perceive things that we cannot. I'm sure my old Doberman could and it used to freak me out sometimes

rods are really interesting to me. i think that if they arent just illusions, they would have to be something like giant diatoms. i dont buy the space alien ideas.

You don't even need to videotape to see some weird things. Just position yourself as you would the camera and you'll see some weird stuff. I've seen huge (car sized) metallic balls fly by at about 500ft. above the ground and just fade away or cloak itself as it got further away from the camoflauge of the sun. I'm a 35 yr. old with martial arts skills and I ran in the house the 1st time hiding like a chicken from a Chupa.

I believe rods are just another form of insects.

I first came across the subject of "rods" a few days ago while surfing the channels on my tv. I found a show on rods and José Escamilla, it was very interesting and I was glued to the screen to catch a better glimpse of them.

Later in the show they interviewed a man who researches them by watching and recording various tv news programs and documentaries. Apparently they show up quite frequently (and usually unrecognized), that's cool I thought but you'd have to watch hundreds of hours of tape to see some right?

Wrong, tonight I was watching a documentary on a series of hauntings that were plaguing a woman and her family. I'd seen the show several times before so I wasn't paying too much attention.

Until they started mentioning the tiny lights they had recorded during the hauntings, on the video you could plainly see the small luminous objects darting in and out of frame and all around the house. In the video they called them various names such as "balls of light" and "phantoms" but had no explaination for their appearance or if they were connected to the paranormal activity that was taking place.

They zoomed in on the lights and slowed the video down so you could see better, much to my amazement they were rods!!

How interesting... I wonder if one could 'catch' them for scientific study. Any good sites with -good- rod footage (and not the insect passing the lens variety?)

Maybe they are liveforms that did evloution in space. It's just an theory of mine.

I think they're just bees...

http://www.flyingrods.com/articlesfl/denny/denny1.asp

Why is everyone getting excited over a few insects? Damn Bugs!
A few squirts of insect repellelent should do the trick!