Are we sharing our skies with a high-speed, invisible life form that defies modern biology? For decades, researchers like Jose Escamilla have documented “Rods”—cylindrical, multi-winged entities that zip through the air at such incredible velocities they are invisible to the naked eye. While skeptics often dismiss these sightings as simple “motion blur” or camera artifacts caused by insects, Escamilla argues that Rods (or Skyfish) display sentient behavior and appear in historical rock carvings dating back 50,000 years.

From the depths of the ocean to the edge of space, these interdimensional travelers seem to leave a unique “footprint” that sets them apart from birds, planes, or dragonflies. As camera technology evolves with high-speed footage and infrared filters, the evidence for these “living UFOs” continues to mount. Are they a natural part of Earth’s ecosystem that we’ve simply lacked the tools to see, or are they visitors from a reality vibrating just out of our reach?

News 9 Investigates The Phenomenon Of RODS With Jose Escamilla?!

November 30, 2014 – UNITED STATES – “We think it’s a living entity of some kind. It does have behavior of being alive,” said Escamilla. “They’re very evasive, they’re super fast.”

Escamilla calls this entity a ROD, measuring one to six feet long with a cylinder body and multiple sets of wings.

“We don’t know what they’re doing here. We don’t know how long they’ve been here,” he said. “We have rock carvings that appears to show RODS on carve drawings from 50,000 years ago.”

Skeptics, however, don’t buy into the ROD theory. Skeptics like Mark Zimmerman, an assistant Professor of Photography at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond.

“I hate to call myself a skeptic, but I’m probably labelled as that because I just think there’s some sort of scientific answer for things like this,” said Zimmerman. “I think it’s interesting and makes for a good topic of discussion.”

In fact, he discussed the phenomenon in class recently after one of his students, Erick Perry, captured what appears to be a ROD in a photograph taken for a class assignment.

“It was actually somebody in class who pointed it out,” said Perry.

As part of the assignment, Perry took the same photograph at a cemetery during different times of the day. In the night photograph, a white object appeared in the upper right-handed corner.

Escamilla calls this entity a ROD, measuring one to six feet long with a cylinder body and multiple sets of wings.

“People in class joked around about it, like UFOs, but most likely, it was probably like a bug or a plane or something,” he said. “The fact that it was in a cemetery made it a little more creepy.”

Zimmerman agrees the object is more than likely not out of this world.

“You can capture planes as they’re going across the sky, satellites, things that you typically wouldn’t see other than like a dot typically when you look up,” he said. “Whereas with the longer shutter, when it’s open, things will move and light will reflect off of it.”

Wanting to prove his point, Zimmerman shot a series of photographs at different exposure times around a porch light, capturing what appears to be objects similar to Rods, but actually turned out to be moths. Like other camera experts, Zimmerman says cameras are capable of producing artifacts, something in the picture that wasn’t actually there.

Escamilla viewed Perry’s photograph from class and says the mysterious object is not a ROD, but perhaps an airplane. However, he says that doesn’t disprove his ROD theory.

“Each object has its own certain footprint, it’s certain pattern of flight, you can tell what an insect looks like, you can tell what a bird looks like, a dragonfly and a ROD is a ROD,” he said.

Escamilla says RODS can be seen anywhere but their hotbeds are in Washington DC, New Orleans, Canada, Mexico, Texas, Arizona and California the U.S. He says they’ve also been captured in Scotland, Russia, Japan, China, Germany and the UK.

WATCH: News 9 investigates the phenomenon of RODS.

Escamilla has seen RODS in photographs and video of space and even underwater. He even spied a ROD in video taken from SkyNews9 during tornado coverage in 1999.

“Those RODS are huge. That one white ROD that comes out of the top of the cloud, that cloud front was 10 miles away from the helicopter and it comes out in three frames. That thing must have been a 100 feet in length,” said Escamilla.

So what do you believe? Do rods exist among us, these strange living things that appear and disappear in the blink of an eye, caught at just the right moment in time?

“I think everyone always has some sort of conspiracy on anything. I mean, it could be Bigfoot,” said Zimmerman.

“This phenomenon is real and for those of you who don’t believe in it, that’s your prerogative. You can believe what you want, or disbelieve, but the fact is, these things are here,” said Escamilla. “They are doing something here. We don’t know what they do but they are doing it.”

Escamilla says technology has improved the documentation of RODS, where he’s now able to capture them using infrared filters and in high-speed footage. – News9.

This article examines a News 9 investigation into the phenomenon of Rods, featuring insights from prominent researcher Jose Escamilla and photography expert Mark Zimmerman. Escamilla describes Rods as living entities, typically one to six feet long, characterized by cylindrical bodies and multiple sets of membranes or wings. He highlights sightings from across the globe—including a massive 100-foot Rod captured on film during a 1999 tornado—and suggests these beings have been present on Earth since ancient times, as evidenced by prehistoric rock art.

On the flip side, the post explores the scientific skepticism surrounding the phenomenon. Professor Zimmerman demonstrates how long-exposure photography and slow shutter speeds can turn ordinary moths and satellites into “artifacts” that mimic the appearance of Rods. Despite these photographic explanations, Escamilla remains steadfast, asserting that modern high-speed and infrared documentation proves these objects have distinct flight patterns unlike any known insect. The debate leaves readers to decide: are Rods a breakthrough in cryptozoology, or simply a trick of the lens?