Rod (optics)

Rods were unexplained phenomena, but occurred in the artwork in video shots even in photos for some time. It involves bright, rod-like objects that are up to several meters long between a few centimeters on the sides a membrane for locomotion, similar to wearing the cuttlefish and move very fast rowing or screwing through the air. You could not distinguish on the basis of their speed with the naked eye and take only cameras with very short shutter speeds. Explanations ranged from unknown life forms on optical phenomena to adopted alien existences. Rods, however, were not taken seriously by serious cryptozoologists, as is easy to explain, making these phenomena arise.

It is actually at Rod's to very fast-flying animals, such as insects or birds that are on video or graphic material by the type of recording of the cameras to ' rods'. They are caused by motion blur when cameras to record in low light conditions with a relatively slow shutter speeds. The rapid flight and the flapping of the animals so leads to characteristic objects that combine the distance together with several wing beats of an animal. The length of the object corresponding to the duration of the shutter speed.

The effect is mainly caused in animals with long, slender bodies and large wings. By interlacing a video recording produced the characteristic gap between two images of an Rods. Due to its properties and its appearance is referred to often as insect - snakes and bird hybrid. Rods that have been observed on surveillance cameras could be caught with nets and exposed as ordinary insects, which confirms that it is not unknown life forms in this phenomenon.