Jose describes how he first discovered rods in 1994 near Roswell, New Mexico, while filming UFO activity. After five years of research, he explains that these creatures propel themselves using undulatory wave fins similar to a cuttlefish, effectively swimming through the atmosphere at speeds reaching 200 miles per hour. The evidence includes footage from a Mexican cave system, National Geographic underwater video from the Yucatan Peninsula, and shots of rods maneuvering around human subjects without contact. Even skeptic Philip Klass declined to debunk the findings.
Callers who watched the streaming video share their reactions, confirming the footage is unlike anything depicting ordinary insects or birds. Jose reveals that rods appear in every environment, from oceans to living rooms, and that birds and cats seem able to perceive them. He appeals for scientific funding to mount an expedition to a Mexican cave where rods are consistently present.
Key Moments
Roswell origin: a serpent in the sky: Escamilla recounts how, while making a UFO promo near Roswell in March 1994, he reviewed his footage frame by frame and noticed something that moved across the sky like a flying snake, distinct from the insects and birds also captured.
Ed Dames remote-views rods as a living organism: Bell tells Escamilla that remote viewer Ed Dames came on the show, unprompted, and declared rods are a living organism coexisting with humanity on Earth, exactly Escamilla's longstanding claim.
The Mexican cave: a vertical 1,600-foot rod habitat: Escamilla describes a 165-foot-wide, 1,600-foot-deep vertical cave in northern Mexico where rods are filmed living day and night, the proposed site for a properly equipped scientific expedition that he cannot fund.
Crossbow arrow test debunks the camera-artifact theory: To answer skeptics claiming rods are blur artifacts of the Sony VX1000 camera, Escamilla shot a 16.5-inch arrow from a 150-pound crossbow at 1/10,000 shutter speed and proved the camera captures fast objects accurately at any distance.