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Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-I) may be associated with nuclear testing and reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena

Bruehl, S.; Villarroel, B. · 2025

identifier / locator

Scientific Reports 15: 34125. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-21620-3

url

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-21620-3

verification note

DOI, title, authors, and article number verified via the Crossref API (2026-08-22 batch). Note: Cann (arXiv 2604.04950) cites this paper with the wrong article number (21620, read off the DOI, instead of 34125) — an example of why citations here are checked rather than copied.

reliability notes

• The nuclear-window correlation paper (relative risk ≈ 1.45 for ±1 day of atmospheric tests) on the ~107,875-object working catalog.
• Peer-reviewed, but the correlation is direction-ambiguous even if real: fallout contamination of plates and glinting near-Earth objects both predict it.