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While nuclear weapons certainly capture the human imagination and figure prominently in human geopolitics, it is hard to conceive of them as being of much interest to an interstellar civilization. Other than as evidence that we have discovered...

While nuclear weapons certainly capture the human imagination and figure prominently in human geopolitics, it is hard to conceive of them as being of much interest to an interstellar civilization. Other than as evidence that we have discovered...

It's not known, this article discussed the matter considering the likely rounds. The most common small arms in the Danish defense are the M10 and M25 rifles, both of which use NATO's standard 5.56 mm ammunition. According to Jørgen Nielsen, who...

Hello Bunkers. Long time lurker here.

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...

There's another self-correlative effect in that -- the POSS-1 shots and UFO sightings roughly track with the weather. That is, you can't photograph the sky when it's cloudy; people don't see UFOs in the sky (or planets or bright stars) when it's...

From Villarroel, Streblyanska, Bruehl and Geier's "A Response to paper Critical Evaluation of Studies...", https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.15171, usefully quoted by @NorCal Dave, post #865, my emphasis: Finally, the analysis demonstrating that being...

Mentioning the Higgs Boson feels like a false analogy fallacy (or perhaps there's a more accurate fallacy). It just feels like they are using the Higgs to lend credibility to their completely unrelated analysis. The response was 7 pages compared...

I did yet another analysis, this time about the differences of two full plate scans: IRSA (the ones I'm using) and STScI (the ones suggested by Villarroel). See...

This appears to be their critique of Watters relevant to the nuke paper in the OP: The next issue concerns the temporal correlations with nuclear weapon tests and UAP in Bruehl & Villarroel (2025). The critique by Watters et al. (2026) (Section...

Exactly! In other words, 'bias' is just the amount of the prior, which is nothing else than the sum of all the past evidence. The prior against aliens visitors is so strong that being 'biased' (exactly by the amount of the prior) against that...

Sometimes an accusation of "bias!" means nothing more than that the accused is aware that many, many fantastic claims, have yet to reveal any real, decent evidence.

Would it be possible to see if such defects or "transients" are much more common in general in this type of plates also from other observatories? Because if we take this study alone, then It could really just come down to a series of different...