Posted on 05/23/2022 9:51:09 AM PDT by BenLurkin
ON A SERIES of 70-year-old photographic plates containing images of the night sky, a few astronomers say they’ve found something weird: flashes of light that appear and then disappear, like ghosts.
There isn’t any readily available astronomical explanation for what these vanishing points of light, which the researchers call transients, might be. The dots might be defects in the photographic emulsions or image artifacts from when astronomers first scanned the plates. But in a series of recent papers, Villarroel and a small team of astronomers have been more seriously probing the possibility that the flashes might be something more exciting — extraterrestrial objects.
A shiny, spinning object passing by Earth would leave a line of dots in a long-exposure image of the night sky. Asteroids or meteors aren’t likely to look like that — most asteroids are dark, and meteors are moving so fast they’d look like streaks. And... there weren’t any satellites in the night sky when the images were taken, as all the plates were before the launch of Sputnik.
Villarroel and colleagues haven’t ruled out Earthly explanations for these tantalizing dots. And there’s long history of events associated with the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) fizzling out under closer scrutiny.
The disappearing dots that got Villarroel so excited first showed up as part of a search for more mundane astronomical phenomena. There are a number of things in the universe that will shine brightly for a short period and disappear again, like supernovae, actively feeding black holes, flaring stars, and more. But searching for these transient objects is nearly impossible today because of the thousands of satellites and millions of pieces of space debris in orbit around Earth, many of which appear as momentary flashes of light in photos of the night sky.
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Aliens are dizzy when they exit their spaceship.
All it shows is dots on the old image that are not there in the new image.
Film photography vs digital.
It might be different if the dots on the old film image moved, but they just were not in the digital image.
I call it a defect in the film.
That’s pretty funny.
And creepy.
Lol!
Mallopotamus spandex stretches less then this theory.
More evidence that if there is a technologically advanced rogue power in this world, it’s probably terrestrial in origin. They are either only so much more advanced that their tech in the 40s and 50s was only a few centuries more advanced than the known tech of human societies, or they were acutely aware of our technology and weren’t concerned (at that time) with concealing their presence to photographic equipment.
But of course, I am the most ardent skeptic, and not only do I not believe that all this phenomenon is not of extra-terrestrial origin, but I would poke holes in this story that it’s even anything but anomalous. If they were present long enough for plated photographs, then land based telescopes had time to find them. I powerful telescope would/should have been able to resolve a very good photo.
Aliens are showing team biden how the US can run on solar and wind.
It’s gotta be science! It was published in “Scientific Reports,” not “Absurd Hogwash”!!!
Scientific Reports is one of many “open access” journals that appear primarily on-line, and replace readers paying for access or hardcopies with writers paying to get printed. Pay $2,000 and we’ll have a few of our thousands of editors review if it’s print-worthy.
They wuz scratching their heads when examining the photos. Them’ s dandruff flakes.
Their beards. They were scratching their beards.
Any phenomenon we lack the imagination to explain obviously is evidence of alien visitors.
Erich von Däniken made quite a handsome living exploiting this same mythology.
I think you won the thread on this one!
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