Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode, we're talking about UFO rods make a comeback
in Brazil. That's correct.
UFO rods make a comeback in Brazil.
In fact, they're all over the place down there in South
America. These things were really in the
news a lot a few years ago, so it's fun to go back and look at
what happens when we have another outbreak of sightings of
these things. That's articles from
dailymail.co.uk. The headline says exclusive UFO
sightings over Brazil, Argentina and Chile leave experts baffled.
So the article starts off pretty good, but you're going to see
that it ends up kind of in a rut.
It says luminous rods have been caught on camera over South
American countries. Videos filmed by residents in
Argentina, Chile and Brazil show the UFOs.
And then it goes on and says it's written by Josh Boswell for
dailymail.com, dated May 24th, 2024.
Starts off by saying strange luminous rods have been caught
on camera in the skies over several South American countries
in the past month. daily.com, dailymail.com can reveal.
The long white and blue objects appear to slowly float across
the sky in videos filmed by residents in Argentina, Chile
and Brazil. One stunning example was filmed
on April 29th by UFO researcher and Petro Boss, engineer Ronnie
Burnett on cameras he set up to monitor the southeastern night
sky near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. And of course, Petrobras is a
big oil company down there. This first picture is pretty
cool. It has like this almost like an
aquamarine blue light. It's just a rod.
You can just see this thing now. It doesn't look like it's
something streaking across the sky leaving a trail.
To me, it just looks like this strange illuminated rod.
An apparent cylindrical object glides into the frame at 5 O
1:00 AM, heading northeast and gradually moving out of sight
over about 80 seconds. So they're moving quite slow
actually, almost hovering. That says videos filmed by
residents in Argentina, Chile and Brazil show UFOs.
This particular video was taken in Chile on May 6th.
I'll put the links over at the Kofi site so you can watch this
stuff. On May 6th, a witness in
Argentina filming with their phone captured a similar looking
white object moving slowly through the sky above their
house. The same day, at 7:14 PM in Vina
Del Mar, Chile, a third witness videoed another incident, though
this time the cylinder appeared blue.
Another video obtained by Vernet came from a Chilean witness and
Lujan de Cuella. The same evening on May 8th,
residents of a Brazilian town near the border with Uruguay
filmed one that appeared to change color from white to blue
and yellow. Really cool.
This is another neat photo. Here you can see this white one
just just hovering there it looks like over over the city.
It says the same day as the Chile sighting, a witness in
Argentina filming with their phone captured a similar looking
white object moving slowly through the sky above their
house. Know what they're talking about?
These things moving snow, moving slow, not moving so fast that
they that they come up as a blur.
It has a time. Here it says dated 4/29/24.
Time 5. O1 gives the exact coordinates,
exact camera direction, the object, and it has it.
Ronnie Burnett, he has this whole thing signed.
So he's telling you exactly where these things were filmed
at and exactly what time. Then one studying video was
filmed in Brazil. Often a string of lights about
as bright as stars, moving slowly across the sky will be
mistaken for a true UFO when it is in fact Starlight.
So here's where they start to put the poison and the porridge.
Now, we've been having a nice conversation about Roz, showing
us pictures describing how they very slowly move across the sky.
And now they want to throw in the Starlink boogeyman.
Listen, you can look at these pictures of these rods.
They're nothing like the Starlink satellites.
The satellites are individual objects, space miles apart,
moving a high speed to the sky. I've seen them many times.
I know what Starlink satellites look like.
I've also seen UFOs and I've seen them up close, so I know
what they can look like. They don't look a thing like
Starlink satellites. Now, there's a picture below
this and you can see these meteorites coming in.
Looks like four of them living this.
They're red living this blazing trail behind them.
Very beautiful photograph taken by pilot.
And then below them, you see this rod just hovering there in
the sky as these meteorites go darting overhead.
Easy to tell the difference. Certainly not a string of
satellites. The string of satellites would
have been above where you see the meteorites at.
These people apparently think these salads are floating around
at the same altitude as airplanes.
It says a stunning photograph taken by a FedEx pilot of a
meteor burning up in the atmosphere with a white BLOB
with a white BLOB below it, resembling the objects captured
by Vernet and the other witnesses he gathered.
Notice the language is becoming a little deceptive.
They call this a white BLOB. This is not a white BLOB.
This is clearly a rod shaped UFOI think this article is using
some. Really insidious high levels of
mind control where they're putting these little bits of
doubt in to foreshadow what's coming.
Later in the article, Vernet shared videos he collected from
4 witnesses in Brazil on May 9th showing similar objects, but
experts are baffled as to whether the objects are indeed
UFOs or the satellite constellation Starling.
Now see how the author has very deceptively set up a, a, a
fallacy here. He's giving you 2 choices.
Well, they're either UFOs or satellites.
Well, why couldn't you say they were flying monkeys?
Why couldn't you say these things were drones?
I mean, so he's put this out there.
This author has said, well, it's either UFOs or satellites.
And then of course he's going to go on and tell you, well it's
got to be satellites, doesn't it?
So you're given this false dichotomy.
In other words, you're told you've got two choices, but the
one choice you've given in this case is a false choice.
Instead of this writer just being honest and saying, well
people are taking pictures of things and they look like rods.
Now are they all up to no good conspiring to fool us?
Are they mistaken? Who knows?
But the last thing these things look like are string of
satellites. Often a string of satellites
about as bright as stars moving slowly across the sky will be
mistaken for a true UFO when is in fact Starlink, the network of
satellites launched by Elon Musk's company SpaceX.
But usually those lights will appear as distant dots in a line
rather than a solid cylinder, and will not appear to change
color. Now he has to say this because
anybody with two brain cells together is going to say, well,
I've looked up at the sky and I've seen and I've seen these
Starling satellites before, and they don't look anything like
this. So he goes ahead and he puts
that definition of what these things look like out there for
us. So now he can establish a little
commonality with the reader, Chris Spitzer, an expert in UFO
analysis, told dailymail.com. Wait for it that although
Starling generally appears as a trail of distinct dots in the
sky, once it is fully deployed during its ascent it can appear
as a solid line due to the satellites being grouped close
together. Well, that's interesting because
I've never one time ever seen a picture of that.
So once it's fully deployed, well, I thought once it was
fully deployed, they were all flying around in outer space.
But what he's actually trying to tell you here, and I don't know,
I think maybe some just really grumbled, bumbled language, is
that once the rocket launches and when these things first come
out of the rocket, they're all kind of together.
So they might look like a rod. Well, they're all kind of
together moving at 17,500 miles an hour plus.
So I don't think that they're all bumbled together for very
long. And I don't think that most
people are even going to notice that and, and have the time to
say, wow, these things just hovered there.
We're talking about a group of satellites moving at thousands
and thousands of mph in outer space that we can happen to see
compared to an object that's hovering overhead, maybe at the
height of an airplane, somewhere between 10,000 and 50,000 feet.
Big, big difference. Starling sats may look like all
objects right after deployment when they reach Earth orbit
because they're stacked together, he said.
They may. Well, I would like for Mr.
Spitzer to provide us with one picture of that, one image
recorded. That would be nice, because
right now all I have is a lot of gobbledygook and his opinion?
Spitzer shared a likely example. Now, here you go.
More qualitative language. OK?
When we're discovering these UFOs, we're trying to use
quantitative methods, dates, times, places, very detailed,
exact descriptions. OK, thinking about things
logically, using math, quantitative.
But these debunkers always want to go to the qualitative oh,
you're a conspiracy theory? Oh, you're crazy.
And here's some more of this qualitative language, He says.
Spitzer shared a likely example. Always giving themselves wiggle
room, never wanting to be accountable for the things they
say. Spitzer shared a likely example,
a stunning photograph taken by a FedEx pilot of a meteor burning
up in the atmosphere with a white BLOB below it, resembling
the objects captured by Burnett and the other witnesses he he
gathered. The white bright nature of the
objects could be just reflected sunlight, Spitzer explained.
Now this is, to me, it's just, maybe it's not a lie because he
doesn't know that. That's patently untrue.
But if you look at this picture, you clearly see the meteorites
coming in, or maybe it was one that broke up, whatever.
But you see these four fireballs.
And below that, what you see is not a BLOB.
What you see clearly is a white silvery UFO rod.
It's a very distinctive shape. But the author here once again
is using this qualitative language where he can insert his
opinion and still pretend to be telling you the facts, which is
not. And to say this is, oh, well,
this is reflecting the sunlight. Well, then why didn't the
meteorites reflect the sunlight? Obviously what you have is the
meteorites coming in a shower. And below that, not in outer
space where the meteorites just came from, but below the
meteorites in an area where the planes are flying, you have this
UFO rod photographed by another pilot flying at A at a similar
altitude. Starlink satellites also
generate UFO sightings right after they deploy.
When they reflect sunlight, they are released in one batch with
two clamps parallel to each other where they are stacked
together. This could explain some recent
sightings, he said. More qualitative language, more
debunking, more generalization. This is not investigation, OK?
Nothing close to an investigation.
Now they go on and they rattle on a little bit about the UFO
sightings and they rattle on about the Starlink launch times.
They say here on May 6th, the same day as the Argentina and
Chile sightings, a Starlink satellite was launched from Cape
Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 6:14 PM local time.
The problem is they're launching these things so often that you
could pretty much blame any UFO sighting on Starlink.
OK, you could say, well, somebody was driving a car from
LA to San Diego that day. So it must have been them.
You are, you are creating situation where you've set up
this straw man, this satellite, the, the, the Starling
satellites. And so any time a UFO was
spotted, well, it must have been Starlight reflecting off, you
know, it must have been sunlight reflecting off a satellite.
It must have been the launch. It must have been the rocket
coming down. It's it's now their go to
debunker used to be swamp gas, now it's satellites, he says.
I am pretty sure startling sets also all cap generate UFO
sightings right after they are deployed, when they reflect
sunlight, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, yeah, we this is just the
same tired excuse. I tell you, it really gets old.
On May 8th at 6:42 PM, another launched from John F Kennedy
Space Center on Merritt Island, FL, the same day as the sighting
on the Uruguay border. There was no Starlink launch on
April 29th when Burnett captured his video, but there was a
launch from Cape L Canaveral at 9:50 PM the previous evening.
So I guess I just hung around for a day.
One video is from my camera at a hot spot here in Rio, Burnett
said. In May, these big luminous rods
started to appear in Argentina, Uruguay and South of Brazil.
I have many videos people sent me.
The only explanation for me would be Starlink, but no
satellite train was visible at the time of the sighting.
I wish that someone would tell this gentleman that he's not
obligated to explain these things, just report him.
That's all you have to do. Burnett, who works as an
electronics computer engineer at Brazilian oil firm Petrobras.
Petrobras is a prominent UFO researcher in Brazil and founder
of the UAP brazil.com. So you have some good pictures,
you have some decent reports that actually good reports that
give you the time, the date to place everything that right down
to the geographical coordinates. And then the rest of the article
just focuses on this absolute nonsense with Starling Satellite
and the whole debunking there that goes on.
It's it's, it's, it's outrageous really.
But until we start to have more of our own stuff published on
forums, we can access it without without the debunking.
This is what we're left with. At least we got the pictures out
of this and we got some facts about the sightings.
Now these things have been going on long before Starlink and I
want to take a look at this article from New Mexico that
happened back. This incident happened back in
2014. Now, continuing with these rods,
this article here is from news9.com dated Thursday,
November 20th, 2014. It says News 9 investigates the
phenomena of rods. Cameras capture a variety of
moments in time, but sometimes they capture something else,
something unexplained. One man from New Mexico believes
he's discovered a new life form, which has spurred a worldwide
debate. So you can see right at the bat
that they're framing what these things are in a much different
light than the previous article. Cameras capture a variety of
moments in time, but sometimes they capture something else,
something unexplained. One man from Nick, one man from
New Mexico believes he discovered a new life form,
which has spurred a worldwide debate.
There is a phenomena that exists among us, said Joe Escamilla,
founder and researcher of Rods. They're like skyfish.
They swim through the air like fish.
He first captured a strange image on his photographs back in
1994. At first I thought they were
insects, birds, you know, floating close to the lens of
the camera, he said 1994. I don't think that Starlink was
around then. However, at such a high shutter
speed, he says he eliminated the possibility of it being an
insect rubber, but something else, something mysterious.
We think it's a living entity of some kind.
It does have behavior of being alive.
Set Escamilla. They're very evasive.
They're super fast. Escamilla calls this entity
Arod, 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 appear to show rod on cave
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, and Edmond. I hate to call myself a skeptic,
really, but I'm probably labeled as that because I just think
there's some sort of scientific answer for things like this,
said Zimmerman. Notice the qualitative language
he uses. Because I just think so.
He's appealing to authority, and the authority is himself.
He doesn't say, well, we've measured all this stuff and it
looks to us like it's this or that.
No, I just think because I've got a fancy college degree and
I'm an assistant professor, I think it's interesting and makes
good for and makes for a good topic of discussion.
In fact, he discussed the phenomena in class recently
after one of his students, Eric 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 and the night photograph, a white object
appeared in the upper right-handed corner.
People in class joked around about it like UFOs, but most
likely it was probably a bug or a plane or something.
He said the fact that it was in a cemetery made it a little more
creepy. So he set up this scenario for
you. This another one of these false
dichotomies where you're given a choice.
Well, it must have been a bug. Based on what?
Did you set up a controlled environment to take a picture in
where you could eliminate bugs? That would have been the
scientific thing to do. But these debunkers, it doesn't
matter if they've got a PhD, they don't want to approach this
stuff quantitatively. They want to approach it
qualitatively. That way they can be the
authorities and they can tell you what to think.
Zimmerman agrees. The object is more 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.
Where is with longer shutter. When it's open, things will move
and light will reflect off it. I don't know, man, but for a
professor, doesn't seem like it's that well constructed of a
sentence to me. 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 Moss.
Like other camera experts, Zimmerman says cameras are
capable of producing artifacts. Something in the picture that
wasn't actually there. Yeah.
Especially when you set it up to do that.
We're not talking about people taking pictures at random
shutter speeds, talking about people just taking a normal
picture. 1 frame, one frame. It's not.
But once again, the debunkers one to debunk.
Escamillia viewed Perry's photography from class and says
the mysterious 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 his own certain
footprint, a 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 says. Escamilla says rods can be seen
anywhere, but their hotbeds are in Washington, DC, New Orleans,
Canada, Mexico, Texas, Arizona and California.
He says they have also been captured in Scotland, Russia,
Japan, China, Germany and the UK.
Well, now we know South America. Escamilla has seen rods and
photographs and video space and even underwater.
He even spied a rod in a video taken from Sky News 9 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 at 3 frames. The thing must have been 100
feet in length. Set Escamilla.
So what do you believe? Do rods?
Do rods exist among us? These strange living creatures
that appear and disappear in the blink of an eye, caught at just
the right moment in time? Now they're talking about these
things moving so fast, but the ones in South America, people
are talking about them actually hovering there or moving very
slowly. I think everyone always has some
sort of conspiracy on anything. I mean, it could be Bigfoot,
said Zimmerman. The phenomena 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 are, but
they're 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. Well, you can see the different
styles of writing in these two articles.
One, the author spends the entire time trying to debunk
what's been photographed, and the second one the author keeps
from 10 years ago. The author keeps an open mind
and really gives us a delightful read.
At any rate, the rods are back in South America, and until next
time, this is UFO warning over now.