Scientists Confirm Artificial Objects in Orbit

In a groundbreaking development for UAP research, Dr. Beatriz Villarroel has achieved what many thought impossible: publishing peer-reviewed scientific papers about potential non-human intelligence artifacts in Earth’s orbit. According to Dr. Villarroel in an interview with Ross Coulthart’s Reality Check, two papers have now passed peer review and been published — one in Scientific Reports, part of the Nature journal family, and another in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. These publications represent a significant milestone in a field where stigma typically prevents research from even reaching the peer review stage.

Dr. Villarroel’s study analyzed thousands of short-lived transient events captured on photographic plates from the first Palomar Sky Survey between 1948 and the late 1950's, before Sputnik launched. Each exposure lasted 45 to 50 minutes, and researchers focused on identifying three or more points of light appearing in a straight line during the same exposure. According to the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies, fewer than a dozen peer-reviewed papers directly addressing potential non-human technology have been published in mainstream journals over the past decade.

Dr. Beatriz Villarroel

Dr. Villarroel revealed that roughly 35,000 transients were detected in the Northern Hemisphere alone, suggesting approximately 70,000 for the entire Earth. She estimates that tens of thousands to possibly 100,000 objects were in geostationary orbit around Earth before humans had any satellites. Dr. Villarroel stated she does not know of anything natural that fits the requirements of highly reflective, mirror-like flat objects.

A troubling historical context emerged regarding these findings. In 1952, Dr. Donald Menzel became acting director of Harvard Observatory. According to astronomer Dr. Dorrit Hoffleit, one of Menzel’s first actions was ordering the destruction of one-third of Harvard’s photographic plate collection without examination.

References to this period, now known as the Menzel Gap, indicate Menzel halted all sky survey operations at Harvard for 15 years starting in 1953, citing budget constraints. What makes this suspicious is that some of Dr. Villarroel’s most significant transient detections occurred on plates from July 1952, the same month as the famous Washington D.C. UFO incidents. Menzel, who held high-level security clearances with U.S. Naval Intelligence, personally debunked those 1952 sightings as temperature inversions.

When asked about possible explanations, Dr. Villarroel offered two main theories: either remnants of a prior human civilization, as researchers like Graham Hancock have explored regarding the Younger Dryas period 12,500 years ago, or non-human probes. She referenced Patrick Jackson’s hypothesis of a surveillance network, noting that if another civilization could construct such probes, it would be logical to deploy many of them. Dr. Villarroel stated that while nature can surprise us, she cannot find any other consistent explanation than artificial objects before Sputnik.

Sources

Bergenholtz-Foglander, J. (n.d.). Unexpected patterns in historical astronomical observations — Stockholm University. https://www.su.se/english/news/unexpected-patterns-in-historical-astronomical-observations-1.855042

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). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-21620-3

NewsNation. (2025, October 20). Exclusive: Data showing possible nonhuman intelligence passes peer review | Reality Check [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKXq-QQ9FUw

Villarroel, B., Solano, E., Guergouri, H., Streblyanska, A., Bruehl, S., Andruk, V. M., Mattsson, L., Bär, R. E., Mimouni, J., Geier, S., Gupta, A. C., Okororie, V., Laggoune, K., Shultz, M. E., & Freitas, R. A. (2025). Aligned, multiple-transient events in the first Palomar Sky survey. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 137(10), 104504. https://doi.org/10.1088/1538-3873/ae0afe