So Andy asked me elaborate on what it I was referring to when I talked about the "invisible flying things" in class on wednesday and I had to do a little research. I remember hearing about it vaguely when I was younger on possibly the History Channel and only remembered snippets. It was some sort of conspiracy theory that went with UFO's or something similar. Well, after a little digging I found it! Here are a few links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_(cryptozoology_and_ufology)
http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4004
Basically, people thought an optical illusion on film was actually some sort of invisible flying insect. Not that long ago either, interestingly. I don't know why this stuck in my mind all these years after hearing about it, I couldn't have been very old when I heard of them. But this really reminded me of What Was It?
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I remember hearing a great deal about UFOs in the 1990s, which like you said was not that long ago. You have movies like "Independence Day" and shows like "X-Files" making big bucks. I think everyone had a fascination with aliens and things they could not see more back then. Maybe that's because we have so much trouble with everything we can see now (health care, debts, etc.). Maybe I need to turn off the news and stick with Straub...
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, I think I actually watched the show that was about this topic. There was a lot of stuff in 90's about aliens and UFOs. I even remember Discovery having like an entire month of shows on it one time. It was funny because I was hopelessly interested in it, but it also terribly freaked me out.
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