IS THIS THE BEST EVIDENCE FOR UFOS YET?
Is This The Best Evidence For UFOs Yet? Astronomer Beatriz Villarroel’s VASCO Project Time Travels To The 50s
Jan. 15, 2026
The mystery of the vanishing stars
Astronomer Beatriz Villarroel, in her 2023 paper with Geoffery W. Marcey, entitled, “Astronomical Anomalies: Their Role in the Quest for Extraterrestrial Life,” makes a compelling argument that,
“Astronomers occasionally detect an object having unexpected shape, unexplainable photometry, or unprecedented spectra that are inconsistent with our contemporary knowledge of the universe.
Upon careful assessment, many of these anomalies are discarded as mere noise, contamination, or faulty analysis. But some anomalies survive scrutiny to yield new astronomical objects and physical processes.”
A similar line of reasoning has been argued by Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb as he continues to flag anomalies in 3I/ATLAS, the third-ever interstellar visitor to the solar system since 1I/Oumuamua (2017) and 2I/Borisov (2019).
Beatriz Villarroel, an Assistant professor, Nordic Institute of Theoretical Physics, is associated with the VASCO Project as the principal investigator looking for anomalies that cannot be ruled out by any naturally occurring known cause.
Short for “Vanishing & Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations,” the endeavor that incepted in 2017, searches for the transients and probes with focus on Pre-Sputnik Satellites, and Vanishing Stars!
Under the project, a VASCO team of researchers started noticing a pattern while shifting through the images from the 1950s done in the then conducted survey and comparing it with the modern sky surveys.
Per the study, “We have found thousands of objects visible in the 1950s that no longer are seen today. We ourselves, refer to these as ”short-lived transients”, as we think most represent the bright state of an astrophysical object that brightened up for a few minutes later to dim again, rather than a star that actually vanished.
We are, nevertheless, examining each ”vanishing star candidate”.”
The project reminds the lay of the 1.2-meter Schmidt telescope on Mount Palomar that took several photographic images of the sky preserved as plates during the pre-Sptunik era when there were no man-made satellites to cause a glint in the studies.
Oh boy there were some and then they weren’t! What exactly where these flashes? Dr. Beatriz Villarroel further explains
Any observations from objects at lower altitudes, such as brief reflections or flashing lights from balloons or airplanes, or other phenomena such as solar flare or ionizing radiation, would appear severely defocused (and diluted during the 50-minute exposure), and are easily identifiable.
Nor can these flashes be explained by asteroids, ice grains or other natural phenomena.
These prosaic phenomena typically appear as round, rough, and leave streaks on the long, 50-minute exposures of the photographic plates that we analyzed.
In short, our observations indicate the presence of objects with flat, highly reflective (mirror-like!) surfaces in orbit years before the first man-made satellites.
The study further reveals how these strangely is reminiscent of the UFOs
The most statistically significant alignment of transient flashes in our dataset occurred on July 27, 1952, a date which stands out in UFO lore.
Over the course of two successive weekends in July 1952, pilots, air traffic controllers, and radar operators at three stations in the Washington, D.C., area observed objects conducting seemingly extraordinary maneuvers.
So?
The correlation between bright, transient flashes and eyewitness UFO reports does not end with the July 1952 incidents.
We found a statistically significant link among orbital flashes, a catalog of historical eyewitness UFO reports, and above-ground nuclear tests.
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/515/1/1380/6607509
https://vascoproject.org/vanishing-stars/
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