He spotted the flying rod and sprayed insect spray at it and didn't see it for a while.
2006, Brian Dunning, "Rods: Flying Absurdities" in Skeptoid[2]"
There is neither evidence nor plausible hypotheticals suggesting that invisible flying "rods" might exist.
2010, Stuart Wilde, The Art of Redemption[3], page 165:
Escamilla discovered the flying rods by accident when his video camera was left on one day.
a.2013, "Flying rods and insects" at Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena[4]:
Flying rods (or simply 'rods' or 'skyfish') are flying linear anomalies caught (usually) on video, having not been seen at the time of filming. […] Some people believe they are cryptozoological and represent a previously undiscovered form of life, maybe even of alien origin.
With that said, the jury is out on what skyfish or flying rods actually are. There are supposed photographs of dead flying rods which look suspiciously like several dragonflies mutilated and fastened together to create a strange looking creature with several pairs of wings.
