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Gary C reacted to John J.'s post in the thread Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey with
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Quote below from "A study claimed UFOs orbited Earth in the 1950s. Then scientists checked the math", Adam Frank, Big Think, August 27, 2026 as per @Smythe Bacchus' post #851. Frank's article discusses "Critical Evaluation of Studies Alleging... -
John J. replied to the thread Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey.-Ah, not just implied, on reading the paper, We speculate that some transients could potentially be UAP in Earth orbit that, if descending into the atmosphere, might provide the stimulus for some UAP sightings. "Transients in the Palomar... -
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Gary C reacted to Ann K's post in the thread Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey with
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https://bigthink.com/13-8/a-study-claimed-ufos-visited-earth-in-the-1950s-then-scientists-checked-the-math/ This needs to be said often and loudly. Scientists learn very early in their careers to expect that not everyone will agree with their... -
Gary C reacted to HoaxEye's post in the thread Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey with Like.
New preprint: Microscopy assessment of two multiple-transient candidates, Jun Yang & Beatriz Villarroel. Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.26371 (submitted 26 Aug 2026). PDF version is attached. Short summary: the paper physically re-examines two...
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Gary C reacted to HoaxEye's post in the thread Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey with Like.
"Paper-parity" run has completed. Report and data: https://github.com/jannefi/poss1-plate-slice/blob/main/results/s0-642-paper-parity-20260828/README.md This release does not replace or change anything I released previously. It's a separate...
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Gary C reacted to JMartJr's post in the thread Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey with Agree.
As "skeptical" in our context would not mean thinking every claim is false, .but instead that we'd like to see the evidence and where it leads...
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Gary C reacted to FatPhil's post in the thread Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey with Agree.
No, that's not what "critical" necessarily implies in the field of academia. Common words can have subtly different meanings from their normal use. For example, most well known, "theories" quite often aren't just theories, and Hardy wasn't sorry...
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Gary C reacted to Smythe Bacchus's post in the thread Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey with
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I realise the prepublication release of the Watters et. al. critique of the 2025 VASCO research papers has already been cited on Metabunk. This article provides an update and brings it all together. A study claimed UFOs orbited Earth in the... -
Mauro reacted to John J.'s post in the thread Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey with
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I guess there might be a broad correlation between weather at the Mount Palomar Observatory and the former Nevada Test Site which is very roughly 410 km/ 255 miles to the NNE; tests there from 1951. (There were no tests in 1950 as far as I can... -
Mauro reacted to jdog's post in the thread Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey with Informative.
Since most 1950s-era tests were done to be observed and assessed with a variety of remote instruments and aircraft, they had to be done when the skies were clear enough for every platform to see the detonation; the goal was to accurately measure...
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Z.W. Wolf reacted to Igor K.'s post in the thread We need OSINT specialists to identify the location of a UFO sighting filmed from a Tripoli-Kyiv flight in March 2007. with
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If we take into account the reflection hypothesis, it is difficult to say the exact location right away, if we focus on the airport and the river, and then on Bucharest, then the trajectory is this place, it was not there yet in the 2007 images...
