Villarroel’s recent work is a stunning success that shows science can peer into what is typically considered paranormal or fringe.
How did we miss this for 70 years?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zRWi_r3HRM
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Underreported #ufo story. Skeptical pushback on this has been... muted? Hank Green sort of glosses over this in a recent video, I think the claim here is "nuclear test shrapnel that somehow gets into space and orbits and reflects sunlight?" I guess?
As for "how could we have missed this?", take a look at the history of Project Blue Book. This was supposed to be a serious academic look at the phenomenon in the 70's, which according to its (academic) director, was compromised.
In terms of missing things in science, there seem to be 1) coordinated obfuscation against public scientists 2) career risk/societal ridicule 3) a fundamental difficulty for people to recognize the phenomenon