An interesting idea here: check if there is any correlation between pre-space age "transients" caught on astronomical sky survey plates from Palomar observatory (in the period from 1949 to 1957), and nuclear tests and/or UFO sightings.
Seems there is, although I don't understand the statistical significance bits of the paper. (Really, it would be good if researchers always explained that aspect in a clearer way for those of us who never studied statistics.)
An article summarising the paper is here.
I note that the transients are star like points of light; not streaks like satellites in low Earth orbit would make.
I also note that other research thinks the transients are just faults in the emulsion. But a secret government organisation that doesn't want us to know the truth would tell us that, wouldn't they...!
It seems that the people who wrote the current paper have been out to prove something is odd about the transients for quite a while. Mick West is very skeptical.
I am too. I have a dim memory from a UFO book - probably one of Hynek's - about a 50's or 60's sighting which started as apparently two star like satellites moving together, but then doing a very un-satelitte thing of starting to spin around each other. I've always been curious if there were more sightings like that which went unrecorded...
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