Is this a Missle being fired at an Airliner?(YES)

FOX 23 News ^ | 10/28/02 | FOX

[seeker41]

Take a look a this video shot by a FOX 23 videographer. It is the UFO in Albany, but it looks like a missle to me.

http://wxxa-tv.clearchannel.com/ufo.rm

[Mo1]

Looks fake to me. The shadows on the "missile" are less dense and substantial than those on the plane.

I kind of thought so also .. the sky between the plane and the missle are a slightly different color

[KneelBeforeZod]

anyone ever see "From Beyond?" nutty scientist makes a machine that lets you see into another dimension. Its by the same folks who made "Reanimator." And just as gorey.

[seeker41]

Heres a picture "rods" I snatched from a website about them at the Cave of Sparrows. Weird. Now I'm really going to bed. g'night.

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[timestax]

Don't fly out of any airports on Eastern Seaboard!!

[Enough is ENOUGH]

What are rods?

[Dan Day]

Two sets of fins, and it goes over the clouds.

Yes, it has two sets of fins, but I don't think you're safe saying it goes "over the clouds".

First, no frame of the video clearly shows the object behind a cloud. It's definitely a judgement call.

Second, if it *were* above the clouds, it'd have to be abso-bloody-lutely enormous, on the order of at least a thousand feet long.

Finally, bright objects (like the very white clouds in the video) have a tendency to "bleed through" narrow objects (like the flying thingy in the video) when filmed. Here's an example:

Note that the camera crosshairs on the left appears to go "behind" the bright white strut, despite the fact that the crosshairs (being inside the camera itself) are by definition actually in front of the panoramic view in the photo. The bright white light overexposes the image at that point and obliterates the crosshairs. This is a well-known photographic effect. Not being able to see the narrow "missile" when it passes across the cloud does not necessarily mean that it went behind the cloud.

[Sabertooth]

One of the scientists on one of these rod websites think they're descended from this critter...

click on the critters!

The problem is, these Anomalocaris have been extinct for half a billion years, and they were sea creatures.

Click here for a QuickTime look at an animated rod model.

Click here for Windows Media Player.

[cynwoody]

Skeptics say it's just an optical illusion from elongated flying insects

You're probably right. Right after 9/11, wasn't there a hoo ha over some footage shot of the explosions in which a projectile seemed to streak across the screen at a speed similar to that of this "missile" in Albany?

[xm177e2]

Does not look like a UFO. It is more like a projectile, missle. Outrageous. Where did the UFO idea come from?

UFO = "Unidentified Flying Object"

1) It hasn't been identified
2) it's probably flying
3) It's probably an object

[xm177e2]

Don't missiles usually have exhaust and a contrail behind them?

[spycatcher]

That's one ugly critter! Of course everything descended from something way back in the past. I'm sure there's other choices.

The sea creature part isn't completely off though since this is an animated gif from the underwater National Geographic film. Aparrently they got footage of the thing both entering and leaving the water.

I wish I had a link for that video, but... Here is the best video footage on rods I could find (turn the brightness/contrast down on your screen a bit) It's a preview of the second video put out by Escamilla

[spycatcher]

Here's the WTC "missile" for comparison

[Las Vegas Dave]

Amazing, what speed do you estimate, 6000 mph or more? (No sonic boom reported?)

[aruanan]

Does not look like a UFO.

Gee, since UFO means unidentified flying object, to say that it doesn't "look like" look like one is to say that it is an identifiable object, a contradiction in terms.

[aruanan]

Did you watch it or are you being silly?

Silly.

[aruanan]

I wish I knew how to save this video before it is gone forever.

Burn it onto a CD and hide it under your bed.

[spycatcher]

Found this:

The WTC "missile" is obviously traveling extremely fast, at an estimated 5,000 feet per second (3,400 mph). In the video the black streaking object travels an estimated 1,000 feet in the space of 4 frames, each frame taking 1/30 of a second.

[aruanan]

Assuming the object was behind the cloud, and we don't know the altitude of the cloud but lets says it's over 2000 feet, it would have to have been MASSIVE....hundreds of feet long.

If the object is at the distance of the plane, it's not so huge. If it's between the plane and the camera, it's even smaller. As far as clouds go. Those clouds in the picture could have been at a lower altitude than the plane. Go to a place like Chicago and see how low many clouds really are by looking at them in relationship to the skyscrapers, all of them under 1450 feet in height. This is why those buildings are called skyscrapers.

[The_Media_never_lie]

I personnally have witnessed a very mysterious rod within my home. His name was Rod Serling.

[spycatcher]

This is an angle of the WTC "missile" I've never seen before. Though it's small, it shows how it traversed the city, and was on more than one videocamera.