These researchers set up a video camera almost anywhere, point it
at the sky and let it run. They then review the tape frame by frame,
and find amazing objects zipping across the sky, making sudden
turns and "defying the laws of physics." These
elongated, blurry objects have been dubbed "rods". They are either
distant objects moving at tremendous speed, or close objects flitting
about
only inches from the lens. Skeptics would call them insects,
just happening to flying in front of the camera,
but these researchers insist that there is something more amazing
at work.
An interesting challenge is to try to figure out why the objects
seem to have structure, something like a segmented worm.
-- Glenn Campbell