For decades, astronomers have been aware of something weird lurking on old, 1950s-era photographic plates: starlike flashes of light (called "transients") that appear from nowhere and vanish just as ...

Some common objects are often mistaken for a UFO. A recent Detroit sighting involved dozens of reflective objects moving at high altitude. Michigan's 1966 UFO sightings led to the controversial "swamp ...

Researchers from Nordita (The Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics) at Stockholm University in Sweden, together with colleagues from Vanderbilt University in the United States, have published two ...

In the 1950s, mysterious flashes of light were captured on photographic plates taken at the Palomar Observatory in California. Two new studies claim that these flashes were caused by reflective ...

Two new papers delve into mysterious lights and objects that were observed in the sky years before the first satellite launched into space. Reading time 3 minutes Researchers have been striving to ...

For decades, astronomers have been aware of something weird lurking on old, 1950s-era photographic plates: starlike flashes of light (called “transients”) that appear from nowhere and vanish just as ...