The Good Trouble Show with Matt Ford featured astronomer Beatriz Villarroel on May 19, 2024.
She displayed two slides, side by side, showing starlike points. “Here you see things that are really weird.” The image shows three “stars” that are visible on one slide, but missing on the second slide. It was captured by a telescope on July 27, 1952. On the exact date, Washington D.C. was caught in a phenomenon that can be described as a UFO panic. A wave of flying saucers were seen over the Capitol and in outlying areas, galvanizing the press and public. The USAF sent jets to hunt them. As phone calls flooded police switchboards and gawkers filled the streets, the level of excitement was unlike anything seen, even with the Phoenix Lights.
So let’s focus on the image. The points of light line up like a string of satellites. Why do they disappear? Where did they go? If they were not starlike bodies, as they would appear to the astronomer, but satellites, they would need to be far closer than the stars, in fact positioned inside of earth’s orbit. The size of ordinary satellites is roughly the same as the common dimensions reported for UFOs. And the fact is, no satellites were hanging in the sky in the year 1952.
Sputnik didn’t launch from Russia until October 1957. “There were no satellites or space debris.” The finding lit Beatriz Villarroel with a strong interest in UAP, one she continues to pursue today, aided by highly placed scientific colleagues.
Granted, there are ambiguities with the data; the images may have been some kind of plate defect, but she doesn’t think so. Another oddity is that the plates were destroyed, at a time when the head of the Harvard Observatory was Dr. Donald Menzel. Menzel was a professional skeptic and a government contractor. “He was probably the top UFO debunker in the 1950s.” A constant foil to J. Allen Hynek, he would publish articles, books and make media appearances bashing UFOs. One of the first things he did when taking over the observatory was getting rid of the plates by moving them to the basement, where moisture did the job.
“They were doomed, these plates,” said Villarroel. Possibility of a coverup? It cannot be dismissed.
They can’t be stars, because stars don’t vanish, and they can’t be satellites, for the records were made well before the launch of the first manmade satellite. By deduction, the objects were not stars or satellites–but UAP. Since they appear to line up like a string of satellites, they may be traveling in formation. We may in fact be looking at the UFOs that created the flying saucer wave of July 27 and 28, 1952, lining up for a coordinated blitz on Washington, D.C.
Why do so few astronomers report UFOs and UAP? Is the stigma not only present in astronomy, but possibly more powerful than in military circles? But all that is changing, she reported. “I don’t want to keep the mystery, I want a solution.” Equipped with a Masters in physics and a position in the Black Hole Group at ETH Zurich in Switzerland, Dr. Villarroel continues to explore astronomical imaging with a keen interest in analyzing “UAP cases.” Her “most important project” currently involves setting up an array of telescopes in New Mexico to look for flying saucers, triangles and other UFOs.
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