About this episode
Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss mysterious star-like flashes observed in the 1950s before the launch of satellites.
Thousands of star-like flashes flicker across sky-survey plates shot in the 1950s, before any satellite existed — some clustered, some lined up, some on famous UFO nights. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli weigh five explanations for the pre-Sputnik transients.
People in this episode
Host: Jimmy Akin
Guest: Dom Bettinelli
Topics covered
- UFOs
- astronomy
- historical observations
- satellite technology
- explanations of phenomena
Keywords
- pre-Sputnik
- transients
- UFO
- sky-survey
- 1950s
- explanations
- flashes
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