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A study claimed UFOs orbited Earth in the 1950s. Then scientists checked the math.

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A study claimed UFOs orbited Earth in the 1950s. Then scientists checked the math.
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The announcement made headlines. In October 2025, a group of researchers published a paper in a well-regarded, peer-reviewed astronomical journal claiming the extraordinary: They’d found evidence of objects orbiting the Earth years before the launch of any human-made artificial satellites. In another paper, they also claimed links between when these objects appeared in the sky and the dates of nuclear tests in the 1950s. If any of these results were correct, it’d represent evidence of orbiting n

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