UFO Caught on Tape in Kansas?
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Updated: 1:12 PM Jan 11, 2008
UFO Caught on Tape in Kansas?
A news photographer in Wichita, Kansas, says he captured a UFO on tape. WEB EXTRA: vote on whether you think it's a UFO.
Posted: 12:13 PM Jan 11, 2008
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Do you believe in UFOs?

NBC affiliate KSN photographer Brandon Mowry shot video of an unidentified object in 2002 at the Albany International Airport.

That video is now the focus of an episode of a History Channel series.

"I didn't see it when I was shooting it at the time," Mowry said. "I didn't have my eye in the view finder at all. Then, when I went back to the edit bay, I just happened to pause it on one of the seven frames it was in."

The video shows a missile-like object flying at a fast rate of speed behind some clouds.

It is part of a new History Channel series, called "Monsterquest."

The show looks at the theory of "rods", which some believe are biological creatures that live in the upper atmosphere and only recently were caught on tape.

Critics say the images are mere tricks of light that affect the camera's eye.

"As far as alien creatures in a ship, I don't know about that," Mowry said. "But there is a lot of stuff out there that we don't know about, and this is one of those things."

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Posted by: MrLeo on Sep 2, 2011 at 04:41 PM

People continue to explain these types of unknowns as something that they know, in this case, as "insects" or "biological creatures". And of course, the debunkers will debunk these specific explanations. Everyone focuses on the (erroneous) initial guess as to what these might be. If you study the video, you will see the object (rod) pass behind a cloud. That is no insect... and there is nothing to indicate it is a "biological creature". Sheesh. So what is it? Good question and there is no good answer. I know it's unsettling, but sometimes we humans don't have the answers. We don't even understand the question!
Posted by: Honestly on Mar 21, 2010 at 12:35 AM

Some people still have not figured out this fairy tale farce. The theory of "rods", which some believe are biological creatures that live in the upper atmosphere and have been filmed for over a decade, mainly in Mexico and S. America, has been disproved a number of times, but amazingly are still getting media attention as UFOs. Just stir up some insects in your yard and snap a picture. The insect must be backlit, the sun behind the bug. With a still camera you will get one frame of the bug that is going by the lens, but in that short time its wings will beat one to four times. That is from where the "rods" get their distinctive look. With a movie camera, the insect will still beat its wings three or more times in each frame giving the illusion of a long bodied creature with undulating fins that zips by. Someone might ask, "Then why are some rods longer than others?" Their length is determined by the speed of the shutter. A longer shutter speed means more beats of the insect's wings and thus a longer "rod". Sorry, they're just bugs.
Posted by: scott on May 30, 2009 at 07:43 PM

It's the rods they talk about on coast to coast
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