A newly published study by Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) researchers has looked at mysterious "transient events".
Since 2017, the Vanishing & Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations ( VASCO ) project has attempted to look for stars and other sources of light that have appeared and disappeared from view or have dimmed unusually over the 20th and 21st centuries, known as "transient events". The team has previously found that around 100 stars have disappeared from view without an explanation (though other teams have suggestions as to where they went ).
"These short-lived transients (lasting less than one exposure time of 50 minutes) are absent in images taken shortly before the transients appear and in all images from subsequent surveys," the team explained in a re