Keep watching the stars!
This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science.
The VASCO project monitors anomalies in the sky, like strange lights and vanishing stars.
While studying astronomical photographs from the 50’s, Stephen Bruehl and Beatriz Villarroel noticed something strange.
Bright spots were found in the sky the day before AND after nuclear weapons tests. During these windows, bright light reports increased by forty-five percent.
They cross-referenced this with unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP sightings.
And? There was an increase in light spots with each additional UAP report. This ties the UAP sightings to bright lights during nuclear weapons testing.
So….. enjoy the lightshow. Nothing to worry about here. Just some explosions and unexplained phenomena!
Reference: Bruehl, S., & Villarroel, B. (2025). Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-I) may be associated with nuclear testing and reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 34125.