In the early 1950s, astronomers from the Palomar observatory in California captured the images of the night sky, which revealed something special: fleeting, stars similar to objects that appeared and disappeared within a few minutes.
These “temporary”, as scientists call them, were noticed during the first Palomar Observatory Survey, a project that photographed the heavens before launching the first artificial satellite in 1957.
Recent test By scientists Stephen Bruehl from Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Beatriz Villarroel from Nordita, Sweden suggest that these mysterious flashes can be associated with two surprising phenomena: tests over nuclear weapons and reports of unidentified anomal phenomena, commonly known as UPS or UFO.
Scientists combed a huge set of data covering from November 1949 to April 1957, analyzing over 100,000 transitional states detected in the pictures of Sky Survey.
The fleeting ones were vivid, similar to the source point that appeared in one photo, but were absent in the pictures taken just before or after, excluding stars or other known celestial bodies.
The team wondered if these compact apparitions could be associated with human activities on Earth, in particular nuclear tests carried out by the United States, the Soviet Union and Great Britain, or with a wave of UAP observation reported in the same period.
To explore this, they developed a detailed record of 2718 days, noting that there is spaces when nuclear tests occurred, and when UAP observations were documented in a comprehensive database called UFOCAT.
Days in a three-day nuclear test window-what means the day of the test plus the day before and was 45% more vulnerable to fleeting than other days. In addition, on the same days the number of transitional states was much higher, which suggests a possible relationship between nuclear explosions and these fleeting objects of heaven.
The study showed that on the days when at least one transitional, the number of UAP reports was observed noticeably higher. For each additional UAP observation reported on a given day, the number of transitional states increased by about 8.5%.
This pattern took place even when scientists took into account the fact that UAP reports were common, there were almost 90% of the days studied.
The link was the strongest when both the nuclear test and the UAP observation took place the same day, which suggests that these events can strengthen each other to the transition.
One particularly convincing observation occurred from July 1952, when many transient states appeared in Sky Survey Images on two consecutive weekends. These dates coincided with the notable UAP observation series over Washington, in which objects were seen both visually and on radars for many hours.
Scientists speculate that some fleeting may be UAP in the earth orbit, reflecting sunlight or emitting lightweight when they go into the atmosphere, probably causing observations on Earth.
The study does not claim that the transformation is definitely UAP or caused by nuclear tests, but excludes simpler explanations such as defects in photographic tiles.
Unlike streaks, which may result from atmospheric effects, these changes appeared as separate points, which suggests that they were objects at high altitudes or orbit.
Scientists offer two possibilities: transitional may be an unknown atmospheric phenomenon caused by nuclear detonations or can be artificial objects, perhaps associated with a long -term idea that UAP is attracted to nuclear activity.
A single Palomar Observatory observation point also restricted the study because nuclear tests and UAP observations took place all over the world. Despite this, discoveries escalate the weight to the idea that fleeting are real phenomena, not just photographic defects.
Historically, many UFO incidents were reported near nuclear testing places, adding a context to these discoveries. For example, in the 1940s and 1950s, observations of unusual objects were often recorded in places such as Los Alamos and Nevada Test, in which nuclear weapons were developed and tested.
Military staff and scientists reported metallic, speedy -moving objects in the sky, often during or shortly after testing. These documented relationships suggest a model of UAP activity near nuclear objects that can stretch to the spaces observed in the Sky study.
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