Thursday, 23 October 2025

Missing Stars Approved

 
See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2025/08/stars-that-come-and-go.html.
Something has just happened that is very good, but very strange. I never would have expected it. The scientific papers Dr Beatriz Villarroel, Dr Stephen Bruehl et al have written about the missing stars on historical telescope plates have been published in two mainstream scientific journals; Nature's Scientific Reports and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's "good astronomy" journal. As I explain in the background link above, the conclusion of these papers is extraordinary. They say that there used to be objects close to the earth that are not stars or planets; and the data was collected before 1957 when Sputnik 1 was launched, so predating the human exploration of space... officially any way. I had assumed these papers would be immediately turned into editor's toilet paper and that Beatriz and her team would be pilloried as evil heretics, but no! The journals approved them. Even that famous YouTube skeptic and bane of Michael Shrimpton, Sabine Hossenfelder has been forced to concede that this study has substance, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gt-w38GeNc. The fact that the papers are out, in every university library and office, means that the most stringent skeppers on earth, making all the desperate attempts, using the methods I've explained in my skeptic posts, have failed to explain the anomalies as known phenomena. What are they instead? I don't know, but I do know that now this glass ceiling has been broken a precedent has been set with extraordinary possibilities. Talking about aliens is now no longer fringe. We will hopefully now see BBC documentaries with Neil deGrasse Tyson and Seth Shostak with embarrassed smiles trying to persuade us that they have said all along that they believed in aliens... honest, guv! As for Prof. Brian Cox, his ego will not let him apologize. He will probably retire and move to a desert island. Should I bump into him as he's rushing to the airport with sunglasses and upturned collar, I'll take delight in reminding him of all the times he called us "nobbers"!
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2025/07/interstellar-object-portal.html.
And: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2021/08/skeptics-portal.html.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Interesting and good it's been published so other scientists can look at the findings and challenge them without bias. However your bias shines through like a bright star here Ben. There where likely man-made objects in space before sputnik anything from old rocket debris through sputnik prototypes/tests and similar, so called 'space junk' which could potentially be the explanation of these observations published. It's a shame you view scientists that discredit fanciful ideas of ET when more mundane explanations are more likely or proven as 'skeptics' in a derogatory fashion when the whole methodology of science is to be sceptical. However when a scientist suggests something that could tenuously point towards something 'alien' however unlikely that might be you are excited that all these individuals, experts in their field might be proven wrong. It's an unpleasant trait symptomatic of wanting to prove others wrong rather than know the answers.

Ben Emlyn-Jones said...

Nobody is without bias, Anon, even those who claim to be, like many pop scientists. I actually don't dislike all of them; some are more pleasant. My antipathy for Prof. Brian Cox is because of his personality, not his beliefs. There were some manmade objects that reached space before Sputnik, which was only the first one to achieve orbit and therefore escape earth's gravity. Even early rocket tests in Nazi Germany reached very high altitudes never reached before. The first space photo was taken from a White Sands V2 in 1946. Yet if you watch the background video you'll see Beatriz thought of that and checked to see if that explained it. And why the strange behaviour of Dr Donald Menzel? Yes, I have bias like everybody else, but I'm aware of that and try to be rational despite it.