how long have "rods" been a "phenomenon"?

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ok i wz just at sistrah becky's w.dr vick and becky showed us a doc recorded off sky about "rods", which are stick-like flying things captured on video, that are NOT repeat NOT just blurry bugs (ok i think they are blurry bugs but the ppl on the doc said they were not)

anyway howcum i never heard of this phenom till now? is it really new or am i just out of touch strange phenomena-wise?

a website about rods

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 00:35 (twenty years ago)

i remember seeing a documentary about them something like 4-5 years ago, although nothing since. maybe there's some sort of rods comeback in motion?

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 00:40 (twenty years ago)

to me this is like discovering there is a farm animal i never heard of!!

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:05 (twenty years ago)

Isn't this a Wilhelm Reich thing?

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:06 (twenty years ago)

An orgonomic functionalism thing, I guess I should say?

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:07 (twenty years ago)

Is this something akin to chemtrails and foil hats, then?

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:09 (twenty years ago)

haha that wz dr vick's explanation RS! she said it was a "manifestation of the joie de vivre of nearby humans"

(this is because one series of images was taken while some fool was skydiving into a canyon. and another at a barbecue)

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:10 (twenty years ago)

i for one welcome our new insect overlords

― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:13 (twenty years ago)

IN ROD WE TRUST

― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:13 (twenty years ago)

yes i want them to be REALLY TINY trireme-like ufos

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://create.nuevaschool.org/~four/greece/max/drawn%20trireme%20pic.jpeg

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:15 (twenty years ago)

ie like that picture only in fact tiny not gigantic oops

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:16 (twenty years ago)

http://www.memorygongs.com/donniespear.jpg

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:27 (twenty years ago)

(I had to bloody screen that myself, finding Darko stuff on Google is impossible, damn fankids)

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:28 (twenty years ago)

nasa and establishment scientists have conspired to turn it into a little cross trayce

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:34 (twenty years ago)

Really? You're not the first person to say they can't see my pics (I host my own). Weeeeird.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:46 (twenty years ago)

THEY ARE BLURRY BUGS

― latebloomer: HE WHOM DUELS THE DRAFGON IN ENDLESS DANCE (latebloomer), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 05:31 (twenty years ago)

JOSE CANSECO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 05:36 (twenty years ago)

i remember seeing a documentary about them something like 4-5 years ago, although nothing since. maybe there's some sort of rods comeback in motion?
-- mark p (mark.p****...), February 16th, 2005.

they never went away! it's had a following for a while.

its all nonsense though. even people who literally believe that aliens control the government laugh at it.

― latebloomer: HE WHOM DUELS THE DRAFGON IN ENDLESS DANCE (latebloomer), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 05:37 (twenty years ago)

It reminds me of people who claim they see "orbs" with digital cameras. Hello, those are DUST MOTES.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 05:38 (twenty years ago)

I can't get any of the photos to load (oooohhh!! spoooooky!) but I was going to say "Yeah, dust motes or what, like?"

I once read this book (or was it a film I saw? I can no longer remember where I get my information from any more) which was talking about the history of the occult in relation to the progress of technology - how every new emergent technology's flaws from photography (spirit photography) to sound recording (EVP) to digital photography brings along its whole new host of SPOOKOLOGICAL RESEARCH!!!

― Kate Kept Me Alive! (kate), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 11:02 (twenty years ago)

haha one of ppl in this doc get v.excited when he said - having discovered abt the bug phenom - he went on the net and found further proof they existed = there WAS A WEBSITE ABOUT THEM!! who needs science when you get back-up from likeminded web mentalists!!?!

bugseeker 1: "they fly too fast for the eye to see, hence are visible only on video"
bugseeker 2: "but they can also be found depicted in cave paintings"

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 11:08 (twenty years ago)

I wish I had Sky. Channel Five doesn't show nearly enough of these docu's any more now they're trying to be all serious and having Boris Johnson talk about Turks. :-(

It's like people who go to the Fortean Times messageboard to get secondary supporting evidence for their crop circle theories and all.

― Kate Kept Me Alive! (kate), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 11:15 (twenty years ago)

nobody noticed these rods until they started installing rod stewards everywhere in surveillance.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 11:16 (twenty years ago)

that's steigering

― weath'D, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 11:29 (twenty years ago)

Orbs are better.

http://theshadowlands.net/ghost/orbs.htm

THEY ARE DUST REFLECTING THE FLASH MORANS.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)

sorry, Rods have it by a country mile

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

http://www.synergizedsolutions.com/simpsons/pictures/others/rodtoddflanders.gif

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

There's a show on the History Channel right now about these and I think it broke my brain.

― Kerm, Thursday, 16 October 2008 04:32 (seventeen years ago)

bummmmmm.......bummmmmm......

― ╓abies, Friday, 17 October 2008 08:09 (seventeen years ago)

oh btw, this, obviously:

just moths n birds n shit

― ╓abies, Friday, 17 October 2008 08:22 (seventeen years ago)

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