13 hours ago, DaviiB said:

This is "proper" research, being conducted and put through traditional channels. It is also only one of many angles into the phenomenon being looked at by real academics.

 

Oh yes, I've been aware of this ladies observation of transients for a while. There's also the so called SOL foundation. We also have Avi Loeb who overstated the liklihood of interstellar objects being alien spaceships.

Beatriz and her transients is the only one I'm impressed with, currently. Much of the other stuff is not very impresive and we find Mick West doing a better job of analysis with the software he developed for analysing video.

A handful of scientists in various fields, often not applicable fields, doing some investigations in their spare time, is better than nothing... but what we really need is significant funding, and a number of top scientists looking at this for extended periods.

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13 hours ago, DaviiB said:

If you don't look, you won't know about it.

 

I was probably aware of it before you. 

I try to be unbiased and healthily sceptical but I feel you may be too biased in favor of an unproven alien visitation hypothesis. 

Interesting lady and interesting research. She has a new paper currently undergoing peer review.

Corelation found between UFO events, nuclear tests and transients. 3 Sigma, she claims. 😮

The only explanation she has, currently, is artificial objects. And this was before humans put satalites in orbit. 

This video is well worth watching!!!!!

 

 

Edited August 6, 2025Aug 6 by martin-w

I'm extremely interested in the UFO subject, but I'm another one who can only offer anecdotes, not evidence.

My parents told me when I was young that they had seen a UFO (UAP, these days). Every time I asked, over the years, their story never changed. More importantly for me was the genuine excitement recounting the event elicited from them.

It was a few weeks after they were married, out in broad daylight. My dad saw a triangle of red lights in the sky. He told my mom to look, but as my dad has always been a joker she told him to stop being bloody daft. Luckily he convinced her to look up so they both saw it. After hanging there a while in the daytime sky, it appeared to tilt and shot up and out of sight in the blink of an eye.

Being their son, I don't doubt what they saw. It sounds anomalous. And I went through life with a kind of envy, having not seen anything weird. Until a few years back.

I can't recall the precise time this happened, but it was the same night an out of control Russian rocket plummeted back to Earth, so early January 2022. Somewhere between 9 and 10 p.m. For a brief moment, because I was messaging my brother immediately afterwards, he tried to convince me it was the Russian rocket that I'd seen. I'm not convinced. That went down somewhere over the South Pacific; what I saw was almost directly above me in England at the time the rocket came down.

My wife's friend had loaned us stargazing binoculars. They were phenomenal. Through these, where I could see only a few stars with my naked eyes, the sky was suddenly populated with hundreds. I could also see the dust cloud in Orion. So I sometimes went out after I'd put my baby girl to bed just to scan around in awe.

That night in 2022, I'd left my wife in my daughter's room and wandered outside. I scanned over towards the west with our rooftop at the bottom edge of my view, then slowly moved the binoculars back eastwards when something moved into the edge of my view from the west. So I quickly scanned back and saw a hazy tic-tac shape (I may as well use that analogy because that's how it was shaped). It really was just a blurry shape, but I was stunned because, wow, I've managed to catch sight of a spacecraft – and, to be clear, by that I mean man-made craft such as a satellite or shuttle because my mind doesn't jump to the paranormal or extraordinary.

I tracked the object as it moved eastwards, wondering what it could be, when my wife joined me. She couldn't see anything with her naked eyes. I was reluctant to lose sight of it by handing her the binoculars. I was telling her about it when it started rotating. From my viewpoint it was the motion of a seesaw rocking back and forth, but erratically – quickly and with instantaneous change in direction, while still travelling along a horizontal path. Then it stopped moving; levelled out again.

I got more excited because I thought that looks odd. I have an interest in all things space and physics, and I thought the motion and instantaneous change in direction was unusual. But I'm no expert. Then I was trying to adjust the focus but couldn't get a view any clearer, going through all the focal ranges – I was stuck with a blurry tic-tac shape. Watched it a few seconds longer without adjusting the binoculars any more when it suddenly popped into view. Now I could see it more defined, with slightly straighter ends than I'd perceived before, whitish in colour, a black diagonal strip towards the forward end, and a tiny triangular nub on top of the opposite end like a disproportionately tiny aeroplane tail, but facing the wrong way. My excitement increased, then it went blurry again.

As I watched it a while longer, it popped in and out of view a couple more times. Then it stopped moving, seen in relation to nearby stars. And it disappeared – more like a fast dissolve to noty. For a moment I thought I'd lost focus, but I could still see the stars and also a slight, circular haze where the craft had just been.

That's my personal sighting. I have no idea what I saw, but I've checked many videos and images. I can't find anything that resembles it visually nor anything that behaves in such a way in terms of movement, like instantaneous change in direction. And the popping in and out of focus – I can't think of an explanation.

Make of that what you will, because I have no idea. It's still open to an earthly explanation, I simply haven't found one yet.