Physicists Discover Artificial Objects Orbiting Earth from Before the Satellite Era

Today, I have a group of astrophysicists who found the most convincing evidence of unidentified aerial phenomena that I've seen. Concretely, they say they have images of likely artificial objects that were in orbit around Earth before we had the first satellites up there. I've had a look. This research comes from astrophysicists at Nordita in Stockholm, and they just published two papers. They used a catalogue of old photographic plates from 1949 to 1957 taken in California at Caltech that have been digitised. Why until 1957? Because in 1957, the Russians launched the first ever satellite into orbit, or at least the first satellite that we know of. In those scans of old photographic plates, they look for bright spots that appear only briefly, which are called transients. They did this first by computer analysis, but then also by just looking at the images. Here is an example of two images of the exact same spot in the sky taken briefly after each other. One shows, well, something. The other one, not. But these old image scans can contain defects and dust and so on, so they only considered cases where the transients were in the same place in multiple scans of the same photographic plate. Then one can be sure that at least it's not an artefact from the scan. They found a total of five such transients, and they aren't single dots. They are configurations of four, five, and in one case six dots in a row. And one of those with five in a row is dated to No, that isn't my birthday. This is the weekend of one of the famous Washington DC UFO days, known as the Washington Flap. On this day, and also a week earlier, air traffic controllers at the city's main airport and nearby Air Force Base said they saw things on radar that shouldn't have been there. Some pilots and people on the ground also reported unusual lights. The fuss was big enough that the Air Force held a press conference on July 29th and blamed atmospheric phenomena. We can say that the recent sightings are in no way connected with any secret development by any department of the United States. But back to the astrophysicists with their papers. They also look at all these transients, so not just those that appear in multiple scans. From this they find that the transients are far less likely to appear in the Earth's shadow. This is statistically significant on 22 Sigma. What this means is that the transients are likely to be from something that reflects sunlight, and it makes it unlikely that it's something to do with the camera. If that wasn't already confusing enough, in the other paper they look at correlations between all transients and reports of unidentified aerial phenomena and nuclear tests. They find a weak correlation with UAP reports, or that transients were 35% more likely within a one-day window around a nuclear bomb test. This pattern is hard to blame on bad film alone. They consider different explanations on the paper, such as foreground objects, but these would be much more blurry, or camera glitches, but these would not disappear in the Earth's shadow. It could have something to do with the nuclear fallout, but again, why would this disappear in the Earth's shadow? Beatrice Villarreal, one of the authors of both papers, told me by email, With my existing limited knowledge, these objects look highly artificial to me. Only something really planar and reflective can give off those transients. Any round or rough body would result in streaks, and I'm thinking mirrors, glass, or polymers. But who put them there at those high altitudes? It's open for speculation. It's possible, but it seems highly unlikely to me that any nation had multiple satellites in the sky before the Russian Sputnik launch. This is because it isn't all that easy to launch a rocket without anyone noticing, and you can't do it from anywhere either. It's possible that these objects are of natural origin, but then what are they? Or are they image artefacts that are more likely to occur in sunlight? Maybe something to do with solar wind? I don't have a good explanation, and honestly, I don't have a strong opinion about this one way or the other. I just find it very curious. Even if this is a natural phenomenon, it's very curious. Five dots in a row? That's very disciplined dust. What do you think about this? Is it aliens? Let me know in the comments. Yes, I do read a lot of news, and know that chatbots still aren't any good at writing my scripts. But what does help me a lot is Ground News. Ground News is a news platform that collects and summarizes news which has been published all over the world. Not only do they collect all articles on the same story in one place and give you a quick summary, they also give you a lot of extra information that you don't find in the standard media. 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