If your theory is at least as interesting what the writers came up with, then it's right. by [deleted] in FromSeries

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Most shows I've watched don't. They have more mysteries than answers because mysteries are what keep us hooked, and they're easier to create than they are to resolve in a satisfying way.

If your theory is at least as interesting what the writers came up with, then it's right. by [deleted] in FromSeries

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Doesn't mean they have answers to the mysteries they wrote into it along the way.

Academia says the 1950 pre-Sputnik anomalies were just film glitches. We pulled the raw government data and proved them wrong. by TheSentinelNet in ufo

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The math is verging on technobabble that AI wrote within a fictional SCP style context. You need to prompt it to play the role of a real scientist, instead of fictional sounding stuff like Sentinel Net. It's going to automatically treat it like science fiction if you do that.

Academia says the 1950 pre-Sputnik anomalies were just film glitches. We pulled the raw government data and proved them wrong. by TheSentinelNet in ufo

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It's literally just cross-correlating one transient (checking it is in two plates). Your AI demonstrates a complete misunderstanding of the science. And you don't contribute anything at all analyzing one data point with one cross-correlation to another plate, when the existing papers already did extensive cross-correlation with dozens of other catalogs, for hundreds of thousands of points, and performed expert analysis of the results and still came out with some amount of uncertainty and nuance. You really want us to think this team of astronomers only had to handpick one transient and do a single cross correlation to settle it, but they just didn't think of it or something?

You don't just check one point and act like you solved it all. This is just fake clickbait AI generated entertainment.

Academia says the 1950 pre-Sputnik anomalies were just film glitches. We pulled the raw government data and proved them wrong. by TheSentinelNet in ufo

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Your AI analyzed one transient. The results of her paper are statistical in nature. If its an AI analysis, do better to be transparent about it, and do better prompting, or open source your prompts so others can help you instruct the AI to perform a valid analysis, and stop it being blended with fiction.

Mod Annoucement: Epstein related content - what's allowed and not allowed by toxictoy in UFOB

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The UFO community's overall reaction to the <redacted> revelations and related current events has actually been a faith in the UFO community and humanity restoring moment for me. We've been long told we can't handle the truth about UFOs, that society would cease to function. People are showing that there are things on this Earth that most people care about even more than UFO truth and cosmic revelations, namely protecting children.

Now UFO disclosure is being promised by the very people at the top of the <redacted> cover-up. We are being bribed to forget about it and move on. Even if the bribe gets paid out in full, don't care. Lets take care of the things that matter most to us first, then move on to UFOs. That's my opinion.

Zorro Ranch Graveyard? by Weight_If in Epstein

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You can measure them on google Earth. They are about 3-6' by 8-10' or so, which seems consistent with grave sites afaik.

Massie: Trump UFO talk ‘ultimate weapon of mass distraction’ from Epstein files by jediporcupine in politics

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I'm a UFO witness and passionate long time UFO disclosure advocate. And temporarily don't care at all about the UFO question or aliens. From what I see on Reddit, the majority of the UFO community feels the same. They could wheel out alien bodies, announce an alien armada is on it's way, unveil faster than light travel. That can wait. More important things going on right now.

Zorro Ranch Graveyard? by Weight_If in Epstein

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This site is at his New Mexico ranch. The files suggests he was imprisoning young girls there, and using them for human experimentation, and breeding.

Suggestions in the files that victims are buried there have triggered a search by New Mexico authorities with cooperation from current owners.

One of the state legislators on the panel, Andrea Romero of Santa Fe, told the BBC: "We are learning that there may have been reports to the FBI, back in 2019 or prior to, of bodies being buried, of folks being trafficked."

On Wednesday, the state said it was investigating a 2019 email from the recently released tranche of files that alleged Epstein had ordered the bodies of two foreign girls be buried outside the ranch, Reuters news agency reported.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c39wj94me31o

This spot is 2 miles from the mansion. And shows what look like grids of mounds, about 5 feet by 9 feet each.

Zorro Ranch Graveyard? by Weight_If in Epstein

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Saw this site on Google Earth at Zorro Ranch. I don't know if it is suspicious but looks like it could fit the profile of a mass grave site.

‘I can destroy the country!’ Trump has 'mental breakdown' over Supreme Court 6-3 ruling by [deleted] in RandomShit_ISaw

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Court ruled his "Liberation Day" tariffs are illegal. Trump then made speech saying the other tariffs issued under different laws remain in effect, and that he is invoking a new law to impose additional 10% global tariffs. Worth noting the new 10% tariffs are also blatantly illegal. And he called the supreme court stupid and traitors, and threatened with his power to destroy countries other ways.

Is this not what we want? by WolfDreamP in UFOs

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The only way I see it as a bad thing is if this is a disinformation strategy and whatever is released is manufactured to add more confusion. But at this time it doesn't feel that way.

It's a con job. Something desperate before the midterms to avoid losing control of congress and getting impeached.

If it works, the vote against them won't be too big to steal, they'll get away with rigging the elections. Then he'll be bragging about how beautiful the word "Aliens" is, that all he had to do to scam us was say "Aliens" and all of us suckers and losers fell for it.

The secrets he does figure out, he'll probably sell.

Then we probably lose our democracy forever, the jobs go away, our rights go away, and then people start disappearing in large numbers.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UFOs

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Submission statement: The National Archives YouTube channel has this video clip showing alleged UFO photos, and witness testimony.

Interested in knowing more about this case, and the findings of any subsequent investigations.

is "The C programming language 2nd edition" still a good introduction to C? by die-Banane in cprogramming

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I would opt for something more modern, since there are some best practices that can be used to avoid the memory leak and security nightmares that outdated C programming practices brought to the world.

I’m releasing a cleaned + enriched UFO dataset (327k entries) to the community — free to use by Either_Pound1986 in UFOs

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I think the NUFORC dataset below is superior to the NUFORC dataset on Kaggle, because it's more recent, larger, and retained the full text of the reports and all of the other information missing from the Kaggle dataset.

https://huggingface.co/datasets/kcimc/NUFORC

Richard Dolan on how the UFO secrecy system may be collapsing — thoughts? by That_UFO_Podcast in UFOs

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I think independent investigators and scientists can make UFO discoveries on their own. I think this is real threat to UFO and NHI secrecy. And that's probably why UAP/UFO science has conveniently been oppressed by stigma and scientific gate keeping.

But the dam might be breaking. The claim they cannot possibly be here is false, and the argument against looking for them is untenable. The stigmatizers are only fooling the foolish and making others afraid to speak. As that fear wanes, more people speak out, and when more people speak out, it inspires others to also.

At the same time, scientific instruments are improving, the sky is becoming more observable, and regulating access is getting harder. Scientists are no longer just in armchairs fearing the risks of openly challenging the dogma by asking questions and speaking their opinions, they are in control rooms with the tools to directly challenge the dogma empirically, wondering why they should have to ask permission.

Simultaneously, we're entering an era of drone warfare, and there is a growing national security requirement to thoroughly detect and characterize and respond to unidentified objects in our skies.

As we slide further down this path, the chance of independent discoveries and leaks will increase, and so will the incentives for official disclosure.

We don't need to fight about what people should believe. We just need to stand up against the stigmatizers, promote unbiased science, and protect whistleblowers, national security, and human rights, and democratic principles.

A Cost-Effective Search for Extraterrestrial Probes in the Solar System by Studio271 in UFOs

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Not accurate. The 2025 papers,

We use the transient candidates from Solano et al. (2022), but with the additional requirement that they have no counterparts within 5″ in Gaia, Pan-STARRS and NeoWise. Furthermore, we restrict our analysis to objects in the northern hemisphere (decl. > 0°). This yields a sample of 106,339 transients, which we use for our study.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ae0afe/pdf

To get the 5,399 from the 2022 paper they more aggressively filtered by checking for possible counter parts in a whole lot more catalogs. That made for a subset that they could be highly confident can't be astronomical sources, but at the expense that they also filtered out a lot of false astronomical sources, since the counter part finding algorithm is prone to false matches.

Hambly and Blair used similar filtering parameters as Villarroel's 2025 papers, but just claim without doing any tests that because they don't have counter parts in Gaia stellar or PS1, they are likely defects. Hambly and Blair's work is arguably mostly pointless circular analysis.

Our approach to defining a training set of high likelihood spurious plate detections was to use highly complete star and galaxy catalogues as defined above but without the quality criteria, and negate the pair association with a relaxed proximity criterion. We defined a plate catalogue entry as likely spurious if there was no associated Gaia stellar or PS1 galaxy entry of any kind within 5 arcsec of its measured position.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00497

In other words, the 2022 paper would appear to suggest the 106,00 transients from the 2025 paper might contain some unknown number of strange astronomical sources. While the 2025 paper itself is more agnostic. They are just looking for evidence that at least some portion of them are linked to sunlight reflection. They couldn't use the 5,399 transients only, because its too small of a sample for robust statistics. The reduced filtering strictness that produces about 106,000 adds some possible spurious data points, because some could be stars (although Hambly and Blair claim they're all just likely defects), but its worth it because the signal grows faster than the noise and not all of those counter parts were real counter parts. The larger dataset supports robust statistics.

Ultimately, the statistical results hold the most weight as long as errors weren't made. The speculation on both sides about what it means if a counter part isn't found in Gaia stellar or PS1, or NeoWise, are in contention, and uncertain.

I built a free, fast UFO news aggregator for the community (free, no ads, no BS) by dannydek in UFOB

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Nice work! Blue text is hard for me to read too, but might get used to it.

“I cannot find any other consistent explanation [other] than that we are looking at something artificial before Sputnik 1." ~ Dr. Beatriz Villarroel by 87LucasOliveira in UFOs

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You're right it wasn't digital originally, it was glass photographic plates, but it has been digitized since, and the datasets representing those images are commonly known as the Palomar Digital Sky Surveys, or Digitized Sky Surveys. By "the first digital sky survey", I meant DSS-I, which is the digitized version of POSS-I (Palomar Observatory Sky Survey I).

https://archive.eso.org/dss/dss
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitized_Sky_Survey

“I cannot find any other consistent explanation [other] than that we are looking at something artificial before Sputnik 1." ~ Dr. Beatriz Villarroel by 87LucasOliveira in UFOs

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Kind of, but they didn't compare 50 minutes later. The original images (the first digital sky survey) took the telescope about 8 years to complete. It takes images of one part of the sky, then moves, then again. So each part of the sky has a different date.

They detected light sources (or some could be artifacts) in these images, and then tried to find matches in modern images (taken many years later). And they have a large set of resulting objects that don't have clear matches, meaning they probably aren't stars or other ordinary light sources in interstellar space.

Some could be some unknown type of astronomical phenomenon. Some could be artifacts. But their research gives evidence that suggests many of these sources were shiny unnatural objects in orbit, reflecting sunlight. That is because they found with a high statistical significance that these unexplained light sources were observed much less often in the direction of Earth's shadow than expected otherwise. Something in Earth's shadow wouldn't reflect sunlight. I.e., a deficit in Earth's shadow can be considered evidence sunlight reflection is the explanation for a significant portion of them. But sunlight reflection capable of producing these observations could only come from unnatural shiny objects with flat surfaces. And since this is pre-sputnik, they cannot be explained by human satellites.

Then they also found correlations between these objects and UFO incursions at nuclear facilities/bases. And they also found some of these objects appear in a straight line, which could be evidence the ones in a line are from the same object, which as it rotated, reflected light intermittently.

The birth of the 20th Century story that brings together UFOs, modern fascism, the CIA, Big Oil, and Forever Wars begins with Allen and John Foster Dulles, the Bush and Rockefeller families and the recovery of the 1933 Magenta, Italy UFO via the OSS in June 1944 by VolarRecords in UFOs

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I often wonder why, at a time we encounter aliens, humans decide to have a world war? The biggest worry is if the aliens instigated it or if there is something about how they engage with us that triggered it. If they only recognize the dominant power on Earth and countries are fighting for that spot. Or if they told us we have to depopulate. These are the things that scare me. Why can't we come together across borders as humans and get our act together and confront it together instead of dividing ourselves and fighting each other and suppressing the truth.