February 22, 2001: Invisible Flying Creatures, Rods Revisited - Jose Escamilla

Jose Escamilla, the researcher who first documented the phenomena known as "rods," joins Art Bell to revisit invisible flying creatures and evidence of an unknown life form coexisting with humanity. Escamilla returns with extensive new video and photographic evidence captured by sources including Fox TV, the Learning Channel, National Geographic, and Swedish military cameras.

The program features over 15 video clips and multiple still photographs. A side-by-side comparison clearly distinguishes rods from birds and insects based on speed, structure, and movement patterns. Footage from a 1,250-foot cave in northern Mexico shows rods interacting with base jumpers falling at terminal velocity, with one rod matching a jumper's descent, executing a U-turn, and reversing course in a fraction of a second. Another clip captures a rod circling a young boy's waist before darting back toward the camera.

Escamilla describes three distinct varieties of rods identified so far, estimating their size at up to four or five feet in length and speeds ranging from 65 to 300 miles per hour. He reports that National Geographic footage shows rods entering the ocean, leaving bubble trails, and accelerating underwater without slowing. Two separate accounts describe captured rods disintegrating into fine dust upon contact. Native American elders, Escamilla notes, call these beings "arrows" and consider them spiritual in nature.