Michael Shermer

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4,120 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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American Alchemy with Jesse Michels · I Debated UFOs With America’s Top Skeptic (It Got Ugly…) · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

Avi says, I'm pretty sure those are cosmic rays.

And she says, I'm pretty sure they're not.

So this is an amazing astronomer from Stockholm University.

She's also a physicist.

And she saw all sorts of light reflecting transients, basically objects in the sky, seemingly objects, flashes.

You're talking about the film now or you're talking about eyeballing?

I'm talking about, no, in the plates, the astronomical plates at the Palomar Observatory.

And you have all these people saying they're plate defects.

But then she showed that there's actually a drop off in the sun's, in the Earth's, you know, obviously you have a side of the Earth where there's shadow from the sun.

So, you know, where the sun doesn't exist.

And there's a massive, you know, drop off.

Wow.

Like mirrors.

So that seems like, OK, we're looking at physical objects at that point.

And I don't think solar or cosmic radiation is a good explanation, actually, because there's ambient solar radiation all around the Earth due to solar radiation.

And you wouldn't have these sort of, you know, pointed spots.

Not solar radiation, cosmic rays from distant space.

So they come in in parallel.

They're so far away.

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