Air Rods
An Air Rod captured in a video still. Photo: Cryptid Wiki
Air rods, also known as "flying rods" or "sky fish," are a phenomenon that been captured on cameras and mobile devices worldwide.
What are Air Rods?
An Air Rod captured on a trail camera.
Air rods are translucent or white creatures that appear on video and in pictures but can’t be seen with the naked eye.
Typically ranging in length from four inches to three feet, air rods have appendages that appear like fins or rapidly moving bee wings along their cylindrical shape.
It has been discovered that air rods are not merely smudges on camera lenses or film, but rather, they are three-dimensional objects that move through the environment. These findings have been confirmed by professional tests and analysis.
Interestingly, air rods exhibit intelligent behavior, such as flying in groups and engaging in playful activity. Additionally, they have been observed to avoid collisions with solid objects, implying a level of consciousness or sentience.
Air Rod Sightings
In the 1990s, people started reporting seeing strange little translucent creatures in videos. People noticed peculiar distortions in various types of video, ranging from home videos to theatrical movies, which appeared to resemble blurry, mostly transparent rods, occasionally exhibiting a whitish color.
These fast-moving distortions were difficult to discern with the naked eye and were best visible against large, monochromatic backgrounds, such as the sky.
Individuals began scrutinizing films for such anomalies and coined the term "sky fishing" to describe their work, as they typically focused on examining the visible areas of the sky.
Their investigations revealed that air rods were present in numerous films, with countless examples lurking almost imperceptibly in the corners of old television shows, movies, and sporting event footage, among others. Given the sheer quantity of footage containing air rods, numbering in the thousands or tens of thousands, it was impossible to examine them all.
Possible Explanations for Air Rods
Air rods have been the subject of much speculation and debate, with believers in the cryptozoology-based theory suggesting that they are living creatures, possibly related to older stories of atmospheric beasts. According to this theory, air rods are thought to be some type of previously undiscovered organism.
Some of the more outlandish theories propose that air rods might not be made of matter and are instead made of electromagnetic fluxes or some other form of energy.
Others suggest that air rods are made of some undiscovered, fifth phase of matter, different from the traditional four states of solid, gas, liquid, and plasma. Another theory is that air rods could have evolved from organisms that are native to the clouds.
Other theories suggest that air rods may be tears in reality or condensed strings, a theoretical physical entity posited by the string theory of physics.
The most likely explanation for air rods however can be explained by experts in videography. They believe air rods are actually video artifacts that are created from motion blur, particularly in interlaced video recording. They are afterimage trails, typically of flying creatures such as insects. As such, belief in the existence of these creatures is practically non-existent among those versed in photography.
What do you think? Are air rods a cryptid or simply a video artifact? Let us know in the comments.
If you enjoyed this article you might like to learn about some other cryptids such as the Palmyra Wolves or the Not Deer.
