Jose Escamilla is from Roswell, New Mexico. When he decided to put together the web site, the name Rods.com was already taken, so he decided to register Roswell Rods, because, Roswell is in fact his home town, and the place where he had filmed them.

The Rods were first filmed by Jose Escamilla at Midway, New Mexico on March 19, 1994. Since that day in 1994, over 48 million people have visited the web site and thousands have submitted photos, video clips and written reports from experiences they have had with Rods.

What is extraordinary about most of the written reports submitted by people from all walks of life, are that some of them have relayed information that only Jose Escamilla and his team of researchers had found out for themselves.

Information that has never been released to the public started coming in from reports made by eye witnesses from different parts of the world.

The investigations continue.