UFO, Albany, NY; 2002 Raw Footage From Photographer

[smacks70]

It was called "Monsterquest". There were several episodes. The 'rods' idea was one of the focuses.

[byteusa]

What was the name of the History channel documentary?

[Emilio1989ish]

I remember watching this on cnn before school that morning, I was like 13, was never able to find it until now and they never aired it again. Always thought it was NYC though so thats why.

[smacks70]

@Emilio1989ish Thanks for commenting! I am the photographer who shot it. Yeah, it was a crazy couple of weeks for me back then!

[Vertigo027]

Look up Rod Optics on wikipedia and you'll realize what this is, and how the Film maker did.

Sorry, it isnt real..

[NovaGas123]

i live in albany!!!

[hagenar]

bug

[glenmontvick92]

its a flying dildo

[ThorGoLucky]

{yawn} Yet another insect/camera artifact.

[gendragon76]

rods aren't something paranormal or alien, just a technical digital NTSC creation. If you don't believe me google it or go to gercsa.com/STGHA/WhatAreRods.h­tml with the wwwdot of course. it's just insects created in NTSC format.

[john1966elliott]

Maybe something like "arrow with four fins". I'm not sure no ufo, maybe from indain with bow. But I don't know what size of arrow with four fins ?

[gsardokla]

@john1966elliott look up a Stinger shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missile. We sold some to the Taliban so they could shoot down Russian aircraft.

[bassbob42]

My comments were directed at WolYou. I have a great photo of one with a UFO in the picture

[bassbob42]

Great video, I caught one next to a plane and a UFO about a month ago with a 16 MP camera, crystal clear shot.

[deanmullen10]

some ppl are saying its a misslie, if so wtf would a missile beeing doing flying right past a passenger aircraft nd in dangering lives in the airport? i dnt think the US governemnt would be that silly.

[Hackiesacker007]

Aliens exist. Stop being ignorant, guys...

You're fucking retarded if you think Human Beings are the only form of life in the Universe...

[empemitheos]

@Hackiesacker007 Well I know one thing you ignorant fundamentalist evangelical prick

yo momma is the only form of life on my dieckk!

[VideoGameMaster007]

@empemitheos And your face is the only thing in this world that scares people.Case Close.

[empemitheos]

@VideoGameMaster007 shadup ho, that wasn't even clever, how about you quit sticking your head in the sand, wake up, and acknowledge that evolution is real

then quit trying to spread your white-fundamentalist-conservat­ive-christian-hippy bullshit agenda to people who deserve better

[VideoGameMaster007]

@empemitheos Come on,You really think we're the only one's living in this huge mass that's known as the Universe with scientists wasting their time trying to find how the Universe was made when really we could never find the answer.I'm not christen your ignorant bitch,how about taking that ugly face of yours out of your ass and stop judging people at first sight.It's like making fun of a obese person and you call them fat when really they have a disease that made them that.===>

[VideoGameMaster007]

@empemitheos How about you wake up from lies and think for yourself and make a belief for yourself, besides saying "We're from evolution","We come from Adam and Eve", "God made me".That's a bunch of bullshit just like you yourself.Wake up,make your belief,live your fucking life.

[empemitheos]

@VideoGameMaster007 hey fuck 2 U! how about you quit pricking around you cunt sucking, devil-worshipping WHOREMONGER!

if you would just get your DICK out of that gay man's ASS 4 2 minutes you would see with your one-eyed monster(since you're obviously blind in the other eyes) that evolution > evangelical bullshit

people like you make me sick with all your propaganda and fundamentalist agenda, seriously, social services needs to take your children

[VideoGameMaster007]

@empemitheos Devil worshiper?Wow you never think twice in life do you?That's what's why your dumb and ignorant.Did you read carefully what I fucking said?I said make a belief for yourself and don't follow others you prick.Come back to me when you learn proper grammar.I even said I don't believe in that Adam and Eve bullshit,I don't believe that each one us were made from God,And I don't believe in the evolution bullshit.You tell me I'm blind yet you didn't read what I even said you bitch.

[killersushi99]

Its a bug. These "UFO's" have been proven to be bugs that are caught passing by the camera. Look it up.

[HeadlessPony]

@killersushi99

Yup. They're called rods. :]

[known12]

I;m sure its just one of the top secret military devices that nobody knows about yet

[WolYou]

light phenomena artefact

[bassbob42]

@WolYou What evidence do you have to prove your statement? I would guess none. Too many have been photo's and video'd to be artifacts.

[bishop42962]

That's a cruise missile.

[bortotron]

Dragonfly

[2BadBoys]

sumone tried takin da sun out wit a javelin toss..........

[9kidk]

It's just a skinny plane flying the opposite way :)

[InsanityUnloved]

Its a so-called 'rod' they pass through Hawaii regularly, its a mystery of what they are

[printjon]

More worried about that plane that keeps backing up!

[TurkishSaiyanPower]

looks like two dragonflys lol

[pdidycoral1991]

i remember seeing this on the news then some military officials took the footage. at least thats what fox seid.

[RellyOhBoy]

yup...its a bug flying pass the lens. out of focus. Either that or its the mother ship from Zeta Reticuli.

[Smokeyzekat]

its a big ass bug!

[TrevorMcBever2596]

It's a lense processing problem, there's no such things as "rods".

[bassbob42]

@TrevorMcBever2596 Thats intellectual fertilizer.

[TrevorMcBever2596]

@bassbob42 Just do some research on it.

[joejoefireguy]

That shit is faker than wrestling,,,you all need to get a life and think of better things to do with your time instead of adding video inhanched footage.

[cmaggiulli]

GOD DAMN THAT VIDEO INHANCED FOOTAGE!

[mb0276]

it was on the fox23 news

[SecretJustice]

one of those sticks again

[roaxile06]

i belive in rods... maybe they are some form of envolve type of insect that move fast or any other kind of living form...

other people think they are objets jumping from one dimension to another...

[samobst]

was probly a bommmmmmb!!!!!!hope not

[andreaarianne]

I have same images ,live in Newark,New Jersey have lot Picures of the  UFO. I have posted in the Youtube "ufo's in New Jersey".

[Ordazed]

Thats a Rod not a UFO

[mapinfoz]

I live in the Albany NY area, and remember being at work when FoxNews (a local news station) reported this. It was on the radio too. Scary part? The FBI came and took the video tape (i.e. what you are seeing was broadcast on the news, here)

[wtfhacktagger101]

damn man i was probably in school... i wish i could have seen all that about the fbi and everything else

[madmod72]

5000000* stars

[UniTri]

its fake, you can see it when it reach the white cloud on the left side of the screen, if its infront the sky (close to the ground)it appear more clear and easyer to see when it get infront of that cloud, if its behind it it be alot harder to see then it reach that cloud and extremly huge and insanly fast... but who knows, the beer is on me if that isent special effekts

[qwerty1226]

it's a flying Wednesday

[cinemastorm]

Unmanned reconaissance craft.

[NekoKitty14]

There have been several tests which showed that CAMERAS where creating these blurred effects. The 'Rods' were either bugs, such as MOTHS, or other objects propelled at high speeds. Although, some vidoes could not be explained. So, people immediatly think, "It's a UFO!" or "It's from the 4th dimension." But there's WAY not enough evidence to prove ANY of the theories.

I really hoped that at least these creatures were real. D:

But, oh well. Until a miracle happens, no one will know. xD

[alder500]

people think THERE DRAGONS.

[humanedomain]

regardless of this video and what TV aired, they are rather common in Japan, mostly in rural areas / spouse & i have seen only one during hot summer month , very small and up close but when not hovering VERY fast moving

ppl should not make such a "spooky" deal out of this albeit it WAS a unique experience encountering one - just months afterwards, we seen on the internet that it evidently is a big deal with UFO hunters

dont mock what you dont know firsthand & keep an open mind

[Kankuro1216]

Finally proof of dragons

[xinferio]

Looks exactly like a rod to me.

Stuns me how you saw it in a clear blue sky though!

[crawlermk]

there aint no ufo in albany me and my peeps were swinging bats in the air looking for them then i got smacked wit one

[natera87]

u idiot

[videosofthekids]

This is simply the reflection of the plane off the lens. Very easy to see, and even easier to dismiss. Thanks for posting though.

[ericinla]

This Footage was analyzed by the FBI. The object was shown to be real and moving behind the clouds. Who knows what it was.

[eversincealways]

Prove the FBI analyzed this.

[smacks70]

Dude.... HELLO! I shot this video, not a weatherman, ME.

[kkkisgay75]

now i know who are, i looked you up on the internet sry for the hassle

[tylerGo1]

it looks like what is called a rod

Im not a person whos into that sort of thing but I keep an opened mind about it because it could be real.

[inagod]

this proves the government doesn't have secret UFO files,the FBI inquired,even took the tape to analyze the contents.Its a bug,a classic camera artifact.

[Siouxbrave]

Ain't no doubt about it. It's clearly a "rod". Great find anyhoo...

[teslaandlyne]

That was thought to be a very fast missile. The short stubby wings and all. Wings apparently vertical to flight however. Not a speedy zeppelin or airship cause how would it land. Id as a Quad Coil Tesla Super Zeppelin ( Hitlers favorite wonder craft) and someone said its a rod. Neither have come out from the fantasy closet. I like streams of electrons perpendicular to flight than metal or rod wings. The ill defined body comes with being powered by million volt plasma motors. Four as it appears.

[x3tearsx]

no, history channel did an hour show to tell the story -- slowed the film down to reveal a bug - was all a distortion due to the camera...

[smacks70]

no... most of the video they showed was debunked....except this video. I watched the documentary. I was in it. The FBI still wont talk about this video because it's very controversial. It goes behind the cloud.

[GaryMoore14]

omg your right, it does go behind the cloud??? maybe these rods do exist, but there are also fake videos of them? who know?

[kkkisgay75]

Actually with the clouds, its my theory that they do not go through clouds, but there are wormholes on this earth that these "rods" travel through

[BullshitArt101]

lol thats the dumbest hypothesis ive ever heard. where the hell did you hatch that ingenius idea? its a friggin man made drone or missile...cant you see it with your eyes?

[kkkisgay75]

its impossible the aerodynamics of a missile like that would collapse due to weight

[BullshitArt101]

yea ok madman its impossible to build a missile in that shape but theres no doubt that wormholes open up and close whenever these aliens you believe in want to do some time traveling lol.....lol....lol u funny man.

[smacks70]

And NO, It was not given back. Not the original. We started making copies and that's how you see it here.

[BullshitArt101]

kkk...you're ovbiously not playing with a full deck but I admit it is kinda amusing lol.

[Tsiongky]

that jet plane just took from an airport and is gaining altitude...and that is a missile with 2 sets of fins

[GaryMoore14]

thats the wierdes looking missle i ever saw.

[JDPOWER1955]

It almost looks like a missle, maybe that's why the FBI was interested. I think it may be a reflection of the airliner itself reflecting off the cloads. The apparent velocity of the reflection would be a multiple of the distance from the airliner to the reflection plane.

[BullshitArt101]

if that thing went through that cloud then its friggin huge.

[parkourjosh]

Looks like some genius made himself a flying machine.

[x3tearsx]

ok, i got suckered hook line and sinker - nice promo work by you and the history channel :-) enjoy the 5 minutes!

[smacks70]

I had no idea thats how it was going to turn out. A little bit of a letdown. BUT.... I feel they kind of left it open in the end. The camera doing it explains most of them. But why the FBI's interest in mine and only mine??

[BullshitArt101]

did you take the footage?

[kkkisgay75]

no a weatherman in new albany was filming, and he paused the video and happened to notice it, they called the FBI and the agent took it and left. it was just recently given back

[smacks70]

yes, I did.

[BullshitArt101]

So are you the weatherman kkk is talking about here huh? when is it gonna snow like hell?

looks like some sort of modern military drone with missile capabilities...FBI is interested? maybe its Russian, Chinese, korean or Islamic...who has the technology to produce this?

[smacks70]

actually I'm just a photographer

[BullshitArt101]

ohh lol so kkk here might be a lying madman.

[smacks70]

actually, the two things KKK is wrong about so far is that I'm a weatherman and the FBI gave the tape back.

[x3tearsx]

the article on this event was just re-released since the History channel special will air tonight - really fascinating - so glad you captured the footage smacks70 - my question is why does the FBI etc believe this "rod" to be a "biological" entity? It doesn't look particularly living moreso than mechanical to me -- really interesting. I'll be tuned in for the the H Channel show tonight...

[UfoAreUFO]

Incredibly interesting. Very very good post. Thanx

[teslaandlyne]

Got to be the Super Zeppelin that Hitler, with the help of international bankers, was going to build with stolen Tesla technology. Running on electrified current forces in the air, million volt coils are sparking at both ends. Pulsed mag and directed electric field generated current forces make it go.

[muckstar23]

its a bug ...na nu -na nu

[CastlesandMansions]

Good job! And keen eyes help as well. You caught em' plain and simple and the ignorant and misinformed will only make light of it. There is so much out there and we need to wake up. Denying their existence won't make them go away.

[smacks70]

EXACTLY. I caught one ON TAPE plain and simple. If you are interested, my video and the rods theory will be tested on MONSTERQUEST on the history channel Jan. 9, 2008. To the misinformed- watch and learn.

[CastlesandMansions]

I will be sure to tune in!

[vozpit]

You don't want to hear "bug", but that's what you got. It's been proven what those blurry "rods" are. Sorry to burst your bubble.

[smacks70]

My bubble didn't burst so no need to apologize. And... if it IS a bug as you say,

then why is my video the subject of an hour long documentary on The History Channel Jan. 9, 2008 10est????? You tell me. Sorry to burst YOUR bubble...

[MarkOxlong]

Congratulations, you caught a common bug on camera.

[webplayer2002]

The news stations made too much of a big deal of this at the time

[JustDoWhatITellYou]

I remember seeing it on the news for like a day then heard nothing about it after. This was filmed right down the road from my house

[smacks70]

If you only knew...

[Bullettube]

Easily proven as a common artifact, just ask any professional photographer. In this case, it's probably an insect. Digital cameras are more prone then "old fashioned" cameras in this regard.

[michaeljdahinten]

this video shows something people call a "rod". It is an artifact (after-image) when an insect flies across the screen. we have seen thousands of these. It is an insect. Next.

[smacks70]

wrong, sorry. watch the history channel jan. 9 and see your bug theory get flushed down the toilet.

[Tralman1965]

I like how everyone becomes a scientist and engineer when these videos come up. Prove it fake if you can.

[vincecrue]

A condensed water drop on the lens was screeching over it! LOL!!

[lesibutt24]

maybe there is an Archery Club near there, an arrow flew there, lol, thas my conspiracy...

[ORACLE063]

bugs people. lil things that fly quickly. show me something tangable. not blurs. with the advent of digital cameras i want better shit !! lol

[RayfieldA]

Look into "Rods" people. Do your homework.

[aldointerstellar]

i like the saucer type UFO better than the cigar ones. Aliens are tight, yo!

[Ninshark]

It looks cool, but through countless attempts I made to slow the beginning down where the initial clip is played, I couldn't see the streak- crude method however of pressing play/pause quickly- but I still didn't see it after doing that many times over.

[smacks70]

I know, the utube video capturing didnt pick it up in real time. On the actual video its a clear streak. I need to try to put it back on again and see if it works

[RavenscroftX]

A video camera frame is a long time segment. A bug flies much faster than the recorder speed. So when an object moves faster on film that the record speed. It makes a trail. Bugs wings flapping make the odd shapes. Basic principle of animation. PLayed at full speed youll see this as a flying insect.

[josemoran1980]

How the hel did you ever even see that? too saft. btw, its not conclusive that it goes behind the clouds. it probably is a bug you paranoid conspiracy theorist.

[realcyrus26]

does look like it went behind the cloud..not like a close bug that would have flown in front of the camera. size of the thing is irrelevant. look at the thinks we ourselves create ranging from atomic level molecules to gigantic skyscrapers. but almost anything is possible with video these days. we all just gonna have to wait for the anti-christ to show up and ask him if he's an alien.

[TangDynasty83]

get the fuck outta here..hahaha..hypothetically if this was true a person would practically not be able to notice something that fast passing..therfore this is obviously f*ckin fake..

[smacks70]

but thats the thing dude...it wasn't noticed when it was shot. only when it was played back in slo motion was it seen...

[TangDynasty83]

...sure nuff..your right.. :) ..btw I wanna add, that I do believe in Unidentified Flying Objects, whether created by man or alien.. ; ) ..there's more between heaven and earth than we know..

[haist82]

looks real fake if not -who da fuck will fit in the tiny thing like that anyway?

[tomfunkier]

i cant believe how easily fooled some people are. That is a flying bug of somekind flying passed the camera at close range. point your camera at the sky during a summers day and you will get tonnes of them. Please go and try it yourself, you will get all the proof you need

[smacks70]

Rule #1: Never trust a guy who can't spell "past".

[tomfunkier]

oops. it was late.. thats my excuse anyway

[onepeachykeen]

I believe in UFO's but not quite sure what that was.

[1122BILL]

after an extensive study of the evidence i can now confirm that the object is not rod stewart as i first thought but none other than rod hull.sorry.I have also just published my first book wich reveals the shocking truth about ORBS.Tey are infact all Roy Orbison.xxxxx

[rosshildick]

Deffinately a rod. Nice one!

[dussault17]

Two dragonflies mating. Possibly 3 if they're into that kind of stuff

[peterpansloth]

LMAO!!!

[1122BILL]

Rod Stewart ?

[ultraconform]

ha!

[raymondgreat]

insect or something, Why shout u call this an ufo inmediatly, Or PHOTOSHOP

[smacks70]

idiot

[raymondgreat]

so...tell it to me..what's going on!

On the first part I see nothing. And than i see a thing mysterieus flying over. Pleaszz tell me.

[rosshildick]

You weren;t expecting it the first time so you didn;t see it.... "Smacks70: "Idiot" " : Indeed.

[smacks70]

The Youtube video only shows a third of the frames of the actual video. The thing is so fast it's only in about 7 frames (1/4 of a second).

[raymondgreat]

Ow.. but if this was tru. why nobody knows it. it shoot be a new generation for menkind.

and btw an UFo shoot not look like this.

[Ruskyviewer]

I don't agree with the rods theory at all. Rods are quite simply flying insects captured on video. Can't you see? Insects are not UFO's.

[raymondgreat]

i that an agree, of what i have told or not??

[DoctorSensitive]

Where is this? Albany new york?

[mylifeislikeasitcom]

yes thats an insect!

[drgreendick]

very nice catch!! yes, thats a rod.

[October1]

these have been seen before, since 1998, maybe earlier called Rods. They all have the same looks to them.