UMA

UMA (Unidentified Mysterious Animal) or unidentified animal is one topic that the person who love mysterious story will never be uninteresting. The famous mysterious UMA which was usually referred, such as Nessie of Loch Ness, Big Foot, Kappa, Sea Serpent or even Panda and Gorilla which before identified in 19 century, this two animals also were an UMA. Anyway, UMA is still being a creature which was not identified by the scientific process. UMA which has no any believable evidence is still abundant. People in general still specify UMA as an occult.
From now on, I will present you an UMA which I am interested in it.

Rods, Flying Rods or Sky fish

In 1994, Midway, New Mexico State, a producer named Jose Escamilla found something which appeared in a movie. When he used a slow-motion technique, he found something looked like a long rod. It had a thin membrane outside its body which rapidly fluttered, so Jose thought that was one kind of livings being. He collected its information till he can take its photo about 500 hours and he called it "Rods" or "Flying Rod" which meant flying stick ( by the way,but, this living being has no official name, so it has many names in many places and Sky Fish is the most famous name in Japan)

Rods which were taken a photograph have a size between 5 inches to 30 meters in length. It can fly in the sky and also in the water. Someone said that because Rod can move itself so fast ( about 80-300 km/h), so no one can see it. We will only see it if we see in a picture or a video which was used slow-motion technique.

There are many theories about rod but I will choose only the believable theory
1. Unidentified insect
Nowadays, identified insect number was about 800,000 kinds. Someone said " unidentified insect which has no evidence about it, has a number about 3,000,000 species. It doesn't strange if Rod is one kind of unidentified insects, however it has one doubt about rod " if rod is an insect why we can't hear the sound of its wing when it flies?
2. Unidentified animal
This theory stated that rod was not an insect but it was a bird lineage or a mammal but this theory has one doubt about the sound of the wing as same as the previous theory.
3. Anomalocaris
There was one assumption that rod was an Anomalocaris which was a living being in Cambrian era or not?

A membrane on rod's body looks like Anomalocaris but this ancient animal lives in the water. It can hurl its body over the water surface but it is only gliding not flying like the rod in the video.
4. Motion blur phenomenon
This is the most rehearsal theory. When we take a photograph of an object which moving itself very fast, we will find that the object will has a line of moving ( please notice a picture of the car which moving very fast in the night) There was one assumption stated that " perhaps Rod is an animal which we already know but it was taken a photograph and motion blur phenomenon happened, so we misunderstand that rod is an UMA.

However, nobody can capture a real rod, so there are many controversies till nowadays "Is this animal is a real story or not? " because we have no evidence which can support that rod is a real animal and we have no evidence which can support that rod is a fake animal it was just only fake story.

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