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In my opinion hard science could still study flying objects or phenomena and come across real new discoveries, but very probably not alien life. I enjoy reading about ufology from a sociological point of view, but I'm also on Metabunk and I enjoy...

Yes, but that is already being done. I'm ok with both: Studying UFOs as a social/psychological/archetypal phenomenon and also studying the real flying objects. The two things don't necessarily need to be correlated.

Yes, a thermal camera focuses radiation through a lens (or via mirrors) onto a sensor. There are various types of sensors, even for visible light. Older film and plate cameras relied on one of several photochemical effects. It's a camera. It...

I'm not skeptical about the existence of anomalous objects. And I generally try to let folks do their own thing on this forum without challenging them much anymore. It certainly hasn't been easy. But I think (hope) folks here would like to be...

New from BV: Dear everyone, Some new and very exciting news from the VASCO team! First, our machine-learning paper has been accepted for publication following peer review and is now in press. In this paper, we used machine learning to address...

That's Virga in the second photo. Precipitation that evaporates before it reaches the ground

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...

But we don't HAVE any "real flying objects" that are UFOs. Sociology, one of the "soft sciences", still has facts and figures to work with, but there have been no solid objects to study except the mundane. That means, of course, that they...

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...

In my opinion hard science could still study flying objects or phenomena and come across real new discoveries, but very probably not alien life. I enjoy reading about ufology from a sociological point of view, but I'm also on Metabunk and I enjoy...

Villarroel has published an update on independent replications of the VASCO transient work, including recommendations for future replications of Solano et al. (2022) aka MNRAS 2022. Link...

One item from my "what-should-I-do" list visualized: detections sitting on the plate edges. 6 first images are actual detections from the pipeline. Two are control samples, not near the plate edges. Typical case is a source in pure plate fog...

I found a curly cloud! And whatever these are?

That's Virga in the second photo. Precipitation that evaporates before it reaches the ground

Yet another update. Does it matter where you get the pixels? A parity check between my two pipelines Quick background for anyone joining late: my older pipeline (VASCO60) got its images by asking the STScI cutout service for a 60'x60' square...