FRauDS
Here we go!, my cousin came over to my house one night, we were listening to some music and he was glancing at the TV guide(so much for my music!), anyway he suddenly aks if he could watch this documentry that had just started:R.O.DOS.
I started watching, and first immpression I was quite amazed! The video clearly shows some entity performing about 8Gs as if it had no connection to this Earthly World.
Anyway I slapped a video into the VP and pressed Record, for further inspection, we watched the video again, and it became quite clear these things were on people's video's, just what they were is another thing, the cross section of people from different parts of the world made the whole thing more plausable, as in each separate video the Rods were identical.
Ok, after my cousin had left,(he left claiming he was going to take up cave diving just so he could perform some major air-obatics), anyway I put the video on again so I could try and find any cool person in the video such as editing glitches and so on, I found none.
The following day my cousin retuned demanding that I play the video again for him(he tends to need little convincing that there is alien life amongst us). This time I started to devulge what I had come to the conclusion what R.O.D.S were as we watched, I started to explain that what all the video's had in common, were VIDEO-TAPE. Then I explained that video cassette manufacturer's could have encoded tapes with the R.O.D.S as part of a 'security trace' trying to trace the video cassettes that 'pirateers', we debated this and conclude highly unlikley.
We then moved on to some aspect of the video camera themselves, as this seems to be a quite recent happenning, I suggested some sort of aspect-ratio-auto-zoom-focus-anti-skip, data immbedded into the film/tape's, as a gauge for the camera's hardware?
Any way, these are just some of the clues that led us to solve the mystery of R.O.D.S!..IF you just take a look at some hand-held camera's from recent years, I am sure you too will see what just the rods are

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