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Did science just confirm 1950s UFO visits? - C C - Oct 28, 2025
https://www.everymansuniverse.com/p/did-science-just-confirm-1950s-ufo-visits
INTRO: I swear I don’t plan on making every post in this newsletter about aliens, but something really interesting happened a few days ago.
Two scientific papers appeared, both claiming to show evidence for “Non-Terrestrial Artifacts” in astronomical photographs taken in the 1950s. In other words, these papers say there’s data showing something in space above Earth long before we put anything up there.
So, what are you or I to make of these papers and their claims? I mean, if they are true, then… holy crap! I am just beginning to digest the papers, so today I want to talk about what’s initially most interesting.
For me, the best part about both studies is that, finally, there’s something associated with UFOs that science can work with. As an astrophysicist who studies life in the Universe, I’ve approached UFOs with deep skepticism. The “data” has, simply put, always sucked.
Nothing but blobby photographs even in an era of high-resolution cameras and personal testimony, even though eye-witness accounts are the worst form of evidence. There was never any hard, publicly available data that a scientist like me could use to begin a serious scientific study. These new studies, however, are something different... (MORE - details)
RE: Did science just confirm 1950s UFO visits? - Magical Realist - Oct 28, 2025
Of course as we all know from the past behavior of all hardcore skeptics it will only take a very superficial "analysis" of the data to merely hint at the possibility of it being something mundane to dismiss the papers' findings as just "woo." Skeptics just can't handle data that call into question their comfortable little "status quo" narrative.
Here's Sabine's take on the papers. As she says, she doesn't know what they are, and doesn't care either. That's about the size of it. lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gt-w38GeNc
RE: Did science just confirm 1950s UFO visits? - Zinjanthropos - Oct 29, 2025
Quote: INTRO: I swear I don’t plan on making every post in this newsletter about aliens, but something really interesting happened a few days ago.
Jeez CC, sure sounds like you were baiting a trap with this thread