A series of telescope photographs from the 1950s
reveal unusually
regular patterns of flickering lights in the sky
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On a single photographic plate from April 12, 1950, nine dots of light appear in a row in the night sky. To an uninformed eye, they appear unremarkable, perhaps nothing more than technical errors. Yet this particular photographic plate was |
By Matthew Rozsa |
produced as part of a larger project to photograph the night sky from
California’s Palomar Observatory Sky Survey. When lights appear and then
disappear without explanation, they are known as transients, and astronomers
seek explanations.
This is especially true as UFO sightings have become both more frequent and
more effectively documented. Indeed, a group of scientists is arguing that the
nine lights of these plates — which were taken seven years before the Soviet
Union launched the first man-made satellite into space — could be evidence of
extraterrestrial life….
