
Top Astronomer: “I Found 100,000 UFOs Above Earth!” (ft. Beatriz Villarroel)
from American Alchemy
by Jesse Michels
Published: Sat Oct 25 2025
Show Notes
Our American Alchemist this week is Beatriz Villarroel.
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Working with digitized plates from the Palomar Observatory taken before satellites even existed, Beatriz and her colleagues have identified over 100,000 transient light flashes brief, mirror-like reflections that appear and vanish within minutes. Their findings suggest that a significant percentage of these may be real, physical objects orbiting Earth long before the space age began.
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Chapters
Intro
What is a transient? Explained
July 1952— Washington D.C. UFO flap
Glass plates, emulsion, and early astronomy
Earth’s shadow test — proving solar reflections
Deficit discovered, 30% real reflective objects
Flat, mirror-like objects before Sputnik
Harvard’s Don Menzel destroys observatory plates
Government secrecy and UFO cover-ups
Global nuclear-UFO connection
Pre-satellite objects surrounding Earth
Uncorrelated targets — “classified noise”
NASA vs Space Force, hidden tracking lists
1953:Two artificial satellites before Sputnik
La Paz and Tombaugh’s “mini moons”
Mystery objects vanish from records
Official UFO documents mirror Villarreal’s data
Intelligent plate defects? Satirical debunk
The scientific method vs. UFO taboo
Hypothesis-driven discovery, not butterfly catalogs
Nuclear detonations and UFO correlations
Dr. Stephen Bruhl introduces new analysis
Correlation accepted in Scientific Reports
68% increased transients post-nuclear test
Implications — UFOs responding to nukes
Debunks addressed — AI error correction
Eliminating false positives, confirming signal
Correlation ends after 1956— “They left?”
Plasma life or intelligent interest in nukes?
Error rates, 30% real solar reflections
Call for global observatory collaboration
Cosmic rays and “intelligent plate defects” mocked
SETI origins — Drake’s first alien search
Bracewell probe theory — alien messengers
Carl Sagan’s Contact and Hitler broadcast
Earth-Moon Lagrange points — stable alien outposts
Long Delay Echoes — echoes from space
LDEs and Lagrange point correlations
Peer review pushback and skepticism
Ontological shock among scientists
Academic pressure and intimidation
Losing friends, standing firm
Open-sourcing the data — global replication
Aerospace interest vs. academic denial
Kuhn, Galileo, and the politics of truth
Jacques Vallée and 1961 retrograde object
Brightness, confiscation, and data destruction
Is the world ready? Villarreal reflects
Jesse on the tipping point of disclosure
Curiosity, courage, and the pursuit of truth
Final reflection — the Pale Blue Dot revisited
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