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Thanks - I was implicitly referring to this scheme as well: the D‑C‑R‑I scheme (Detection, Classification, Recognition, Identification). This appears to be the quasi‑official version used by the DoD / US Army since 2005. It is definitely worth...

I remember Nick Pope from the early days of my UFO rabbit hole in the 90's. He was the one 'official' guy from the UK who would talk about them in the press and I always wondered what 'secrets' he knew but couldn't tell. Sad times.

I've interviewed him on my podcast and I had a nice chat over beers with him at AlienCon in Pasadena. Nice chap, even though we disagree about a lot, he was great to talk to.

A new paper has been submitted to ArXiv: Independent Recovery of Vanishing Sources on POSS-I Photographic Plates Using Automated Source Detection and Cross-Epoch Matching by Zachary Hayes Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.04810 PDF attached. I...

A new paper has been submitted to ArXiv: Independent Recovery of Vanishing Sources on POSS-I Photographic Plates Using Automated Source Detection and Cross-Epoch Matching by Zachary Hayes Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.04810 PDF attached. I...

A new paper has been submitted to ArXiv: Independent Recovery of Vanishing Sources on POSS-I Photographic Plates Using Automated Source Detection and Cross-Epoch Matching by Zachary Hayes Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.04810 PDF attached. I...

I have now downloaded and processed 30% of POSS-I plates using Vasco60 pipeline. I decided to build a script to understand the differences between my and MNRAS 2022 final survivor set R. (5,399 rows in MNRAS 2022). Findings were surprising so I...

Thanks - I was implicitly referring to this scheme as well: the D‑C‑R‑I scheme (Detection, Classification, Recognition, Identification). This appears to be the quasi‑official version used by the DoD / US Army since 2005. It is definitely worth...

In fairness to the media (I feel like I need a shower for saying that, a bit) the Integrity crew did see parts of the far side that nobody has seen by eye before -- being further from the surface, they saw areas that the lower-orbiting Apollo...

Been following the replication efforts and wanted to share some things that might save time. I spent a few months building an independent reimplementation of the Solano et al. (2022) pipeline from scratch, and separately had a colleague run...

Jeebus, 5pm? Someone had it livestreamed on their phone in the pub last night, and by my recollection it was past 3am. (No need to recollect, one of my IRC windows says "03:09 < FatPhil> splashdown!".) Trust me, we euros enjoyed the event more...

I got some of the code running and experimented with visualizing the filtering. What the pipeline is doing is finding all the blobs of light in the planes, and then rejecting ones that are known stars or that don't look like points of light...

In fairness to the media (I feel like I need a shower for saying that, a bit) the Integrity crew did see parts of the far side that nobody has seen by eye before -- being further from the surface, they saw areas that the lower-orbiting Apollo...

I have now downloaded and processed 30% of POSS-I plates using Vasco60 pipeline. I decided to build a script to understand the differences between my and MNRAS 2022 final survivor set R. (5,399 rows in MNRAS 2022). Findings were surprising so I...

Jeebus, 5pm? Someone had it livestreamed on their phone in the pub last night, and by my recollection it was past 3am. (No need to recollect, one of my IRC windows says "03:09 < FatPhil> splashdown!".) Trust me, we euros enjoyed the event more...