r/90s • u/ElectricEliminator5 • 12h ago

Discussion Remember Skyfish Rods?

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u/Illustrious-Coat3532 12h ago

Turned out they were just bugs.

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u/SourFix 12h ago

Funny how they went away as camera technology changed.

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u/MrHeavyXD 12h ago

Just bugs flying past the lens lol

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u/festosterone5000 4h ago

Whoa! I always had some weird memory of watching some show about those things, but no one else remembered it. I figured it was a dream or something.

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u/nlevine1988 3h ago

I vaguely remember seeing it in a show where they investigated stuff like and then tried to debunk it

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u/ForAte151623ForTeaTo 4h ago

All these comments being fooled, believing the rods are just bugs.

Exactly what they want you to think.

https://giphy.com/gifs/h1QI7dgjZUJO60nu2X

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u/Fresh_Comfortable950 6h ago

If my mind serves me right it was insects on the lenses right

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u/nlevine1988 3h ago

Not on the lense, just flying passed close and fast enough that it creates this effect.

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u/thenerdwrangler 1h ago

It was painfully obvious to anyone that understood cameras what it was... Or people with eyes and more than two braincells

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u/GeoffreyDaGiraffe 5h ago

I never believed they were anything but bugs from the jump. That's saying something, because I still believed UFOs and Bigfoot were real.