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Posted: 22-08-2009 00:56 Post subject:

Passing the bridge, looks like it's front.

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i290/moooksta/Picture6-1.png

Does have gull qualities?

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i290/moooksta/Picture7-1.png

After looking it again I've noticed that what ever it is, it's no longer there by the end of the clip, seems to disappear when it hits the sky above the background bridge.

mooks out

Posted: 24-04-2013 19:10 Post subject: Flying rod on BBC local news

After a lengthy trawl through youtube I discovered this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYMtyMHlFsA
Too fast for a seagull. Could be a radio controlled plane?

Anyone heard or seen of anything about this?

Posted: 24-04-2013 19:19 Post subject:

It's a "flying rod", which is a combination of an insect close to the lens, and shutter speed. http://www.assap.ac.uk/newsite/articles/Flying%20rods.html

Posted: 24-04-2013 22:59 Post subject:

Ah, I remember when 'rods' were all the rage, for about a month. There was a documentary and everything.

Good times, good times Laughing

Posted: 25-04-2013 08:58 Post subject:

Bloody insects! Case closed, thanks both.
So what are orbs then? Only joking.

Posted: 25-04-2013 17:19 Post subject:

Flying rods? That's so 2003, or was that 2001 or 2002?

Posted: 26-04-2013 13:48 Post subject:

I remember this at the time - still a mystery
It LOOKS like it's going under the span of the bridge and following the path of the river, whatever it is

Posted: 26-04-2013 15:21 Post subject:

I thought this story rang a bell...

Merged with the original topic.

Posted: 01-09-2013 22:22 Post subject:

A similar scenario on live tv, this time in London in June:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CfO8k8Ib0Q
clip at 3 minutes 30 secs

Posted: 03-09-2013 09:07 Post subject: Great video

When it comes to these flying rods, how can one prove that they are insects?

Also that video post prior to this one shows some good footage which I haven't seen before. I think a lot of them could be flares from aircraft, but then I think why would an aircraft deploy flares if not in combat?

Questions!

Posted: 03-09-2013 15:22 Post subject:

When the pope resigned and they were in the process of selecting a new pope, KHOU news in Houston sent one of their reporters to the Vatican to cover the story live. They ran his coverage on the TV evening news and I noticed a light flying across the sky behind him. It was traveling from right to left across the screen. I backed it up on my TV and paused it and I snapped a quick picture of it with my cell phone, which I had handy. The light was moving way too fast to be an airplane. Way too slow to be a meteor. I watched it a few times and then resumed watching the news. Later on I emailed KHOU and asked them if they knew what that light might be. I got no response from them. I did, however, find that video next day on their website and played it again. That light was no longer there.

In the picture below you can see the light I'm talking about. It's the dimmer light in the sky farther to the right.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v735/wrenchbender/Image03082013221513_zps6600a20e.jpg

Posted: 03-09-2013 15:37 Post subject:

I'd like to add that I obviously don't know what that light is. It could be a fast airplane, a search light sweeping across the sky, a reflection in a window or even an alien space ship with little green reprobates inside. I don't know what it was. I thought it was interesting though, that they managed to edit it out of their video on their website.

Posted: 03-09-2013 20:52 Post subject:

Posted: 03-09-2013 21:02 Post subject:

I had to wonder about it. Maybe they knew it was a reflection or something mundane like that (or maybe they didn't know either) and they simply didn't want a flood of questions from UFO nuts. That's what I suspect happened.