Rods...any takers?

I think some of the rods that are seen are birds or bats or sometimes bugs. While i'm not discounting all the images, I think many of them can be actually dismissed by natural phenomenon with low quality film. I had seen a few images of rods years back and upon searching it had been found that it was a large beetle or Bee(or similar) that was found in the area. It actually was capable of flying at speeds of like 90 mph and is rarely seen unless sitting on a surface. It seemed that they had simply caught these pictures during it's breeding season when it was flying around a bit.

I do think that some of the rods are actually something like a plasma-like creatures. Same as some of the orbs photographed. For a brief instant they are physical enough and move about before disapating.

There was a video of a rod that I was awestruck with. It was seen to be hoving over a small raised garden bed. It looked about a foot or two long and went back and forth in the video. With rather startaling clarity. completely blew my mind, only thing i could compare it to was some of the weird creatures I had seen while diving in the red sea... something like a swimming nudibranc It looked as though the rod was a lighter than are body, with this dress flowing around it. It looked alien to me, and got me looking at all the rod videos I could find. There was even one on the CNN news broadcast seen over Bagdad during the war.