FS visitor Doug Pederson, AKA Spectate Swamp, recently told us just how he has successfully documented those mysterious aerial anomalies sometimes referred to as rods, or skyfish. Accompanying his email is this YouTube video.
While some may dismiss such video recordings as the capture of nothing more than fast flying insects, others, like Doug, are intrigued enough to devote their own research into what perhaps is an unknown lifeform. He writes:
"I have been videoing these fast moving objects for 6 years now. 3 or 4 different kinds too.
"How I catch these fast flyers on video:
"With the sun to my back and the camcorder at 10x (that's the max for my old
Hitachi)
"It's best to have a sunlit cloud filling 2/3 of the scene. I shoot 5 or 10,
short minute or two video clips.
"I download these video files to my computer and have them playback at about
1/7 speed. That
speed is fast enough to get through the clips without taking forever and slow
enough to be
able to see the activity. I catalogue the fly-bys with codes from VG (Very
Good) to PG
(Pretty Good) etc. If I don't catalogue them right away, it tends not to get
done. I find
it way more fun looking than listing the results. But I'm trying. Now with the
advent of
cheap cheap disk storage I'll be reloading some of my best and re-cataloging
them for instant
display. This stuff is more interesting if you can get at it and compare
various flight patterns.
Looking and looking isn't as good as seeing these Unidentifed Flying Objects.
"To think no life form has evolved to live in the sky is pure silly. 5 billion
years of life
on land and in the sea and nothing in the sky. Impossible."
