This is a preprint of a paper now under review. We first tried in 2022, but it was too early for the journals. Years later, with better methods, we gave it another go. The key question has been: are the transients real, or plate defects? Well, there seems to be a clear deficit of…
— Beatriz Villarroel (@DrBeaVillarroel) July 27, 2025
🚨 New study suggests a structured grid of unknown objects has been orbiting Earth since before Sputnik.
— UAP Reporting Center (@UAPReportingCnt) July 28, 2025
Dr. Beatriz Villarroel analyzed sky photos from 1949–1958 and found 298,165 mysterious light flashes—many aligned and simultaneous.
Not one UFO. A surveillance network?👀 pic.twitter.com/rxvPfMVAdd
If Dr. Beatriz Villarroel’s (@DrBeaVillarroel) research holds—and statistically, it appears to—then we may be standing on the edge of a potentially jaw-dropping astronomical revelation. Her work with the VASCO project (Vanishing & Appearing Sources during a Century of… pic.twitter.com/DhaUuXfJ8h
— Tom Thompson🛸 (ＣＯＲＴＥＸ ＺＥＲＯ) (@Cortex_Zero) July 28, 2025
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If Dr. Beatriz Villarroel's (@DrBeaVillarroel) research holds - and statistically, it appears to - then we may be standing on the edge of a potentially jaw-dropping astronomical revelation. Her work with the VASCO project (Vanishing & Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations) suggests the presence of a structured grid of unidentified objects in near-Earth orbit, dating back to the late 1940s and 1950s. These were recorded at a time when no nation on Earth had the technological capacity to place satellites in orbit.
Think about that. Holy. *****
The implications are hard to put into words, really. If orbiting artificial objects were present decades before the launch of Sputnik in 1957, then it is not just possible but highly probable that these anomalies were detected by terrestrial observatories. Government agencies - especially in the U.S. - were actively monitoring the skies during the early Cold War period using powerful ground-based telescopes and radar systems. It is likely they knew.
And yet, where are the records?
Consider the strange actions of Dr. Donald Menzel, a prominent Harvard astronomer and staunch UFO skeptic, who reportedly destroyed or restricted access to numerous astronomical plates in the 1950s. These plates may have contained the very photographic evidence that corroborates Villarroel's findings. It is difficult not to see this as a form of preemptive suppression - suggesting that sensitive data from the mid-1940s onward was quietly removed from public view because it revealed too much.
If this orbital grid persisted into the satellite era, as many suspect, then it is virtually certain that it would have been rediscovered by later generations of space-faring technology - whether by the International Space Station, NORAD, NASA, or any number of sophisticated imaging and tracking systems. But post-1960s, the landscape changed: with thousands of human-made satellites circling Earth, distinguishing an anomalous object from a conventional one became exponentially more difficult. This is precisely why Villarroel's focus on the pre-space age period is so vital. It offers a glimpse into the sky before the noise of our own machines drowned out the silence.
So what are we looking at? And whose technology is it?
Are we observing the remnants of a vast surveillance or infrastructure network maintained by a non-human intelligence operating in secrecy for generations - perhaps millennia? A quiet observer species that has built a persistent orbital presence, undetected until now?
We are left with questions that demand answers.
These results require formal investigation, not dismissal. They demand a reassessment of what we think we know about our skies - and who has been sharing them with us.
It will be fascinating to see how mainstream astronomy responds. Will they meet this with open inquiry? Or will they retreat behind well-worn doctrines, unwilling to disturb the myth of cosmic solitude?
Because if Villarroel is right, then solitude was never ours to begin with. #UFOX #UFOTwitter