Scientists & Researchers

Beatriz Villarroel

2019

Stockholm University astrophysicist leading the VASCO project (Vanishing and Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations), which mines pre-satellite sky surveys for objects that appear and vanish. A 2025 Scientific Reports (Nature) paper reports that transients on 1950s Palomar plates correlate with nuclear-test days and UAP reports - a rare peer-reviewed thread tying the sky-anomaly question to the UFO-nuclear pattern.

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Connections (2)

confirmedGarry Nolan

both scientists bringing mainstream rigor to UAP-adjacent anomalies

confirmedAvi Loeb

fellow academic pursuing anomalous-astronomy/technosignatures; her vanishing-transients work parallels the Galileo Project's aims

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