Beatriz Villarroel
PersonScientistBeatriz Villarroel
PersonScientistBeatriz Villarroel is an astronomer who leads searches for disappearing stars and brief historical transients in archival sky images, including observations near nuclear tests.
Beatriz Villarroel is an astronomer who leads searches for disappearing stars and brief historical transients in archival sky images, including observations near nuclear tests.
Beatriz Villarroel is a Swedish astronomer whose work uses archival and modern sky surveys to search for objects that appear, disappear, or change in ways that merit follow-up. She leads the Vanishing and Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations project, known as VASCO, which compares old photographic plates with contemporary digital catalogues to identify unusual astronomical transients.
Villarroel’s work developed into the Vanishing and Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations project, which compares modern surveys with older photographic plates. The program combines professional astronomy, archival preservation, image analysis, and citizen-science review. Its broader aim is to identify objects that appeared briefly or seem absent from later images, then test whether defects, moving objects, variable stars, or other ordinary mechanisms explain the discrepancy before more exotic interpretations are considered.
Villarroel and collaborators have studied short-lived, point-like sources recorded on plates made before the launch of Sputnik. Some papers examine whether clusters of these transients correlate in time with early nuclear tests or with reports of unidentified aerial phenomena. The observations are real features in archival imagery, but their causes remain under investigation; plate defects, reflections, conventional astronomical events, satellites, and other explanations must be separated before stronger conclusions can be drawn.
Her importance to the modern UAP record lies in converting a provocative historical question into a searchable dataset. Rather than relying only on testimony, VASCO looks for contemporaneous records that can be remeasured. Villarroel’s work intersects UAP, nuclear facilities and UAP, and technosignature research while remaining part of astronomy. Her public statements generally frame artificial or non-human explanations as hypotheses to test, not established findings.
[Retweeted] In this second clip from the recent Beyond Institute Stockholm UAP conference, Disclosure Foundation Executive Director Jordan Flowers (@jordanflowers) examines the geopolitical Risks of UAP Secrecy. Flowers: "There is a sub rosa arms race for winner-take-all technology... Maybe a breakthrough has rattled this perfect equilibrium of secrecy and that's why we need to take risks in terms of disclosing this to the public so that we can work together... to collaborate and solve the pr...
[Retweeted] A big congratulations to Jake Barber on his very well-deserved new role in the US Congress! Jake is not only a very brave and inspiring man who is carrying out the most amazing UFO research projects, but also a wonderful human being and a great friend. https://t.co/2yTTRolLtb @jakebarber2025 @EricBurlison
[Retweeted] Whistleblower Jake Barber has been hired by Rep. Eric Burlison to assist with UAP transparency efforts in Congress. https://t.co/dClJdh00Fc https://t.co/Kthbc5lSY3 https://t.co/Z2aT434lHu
[Retweeted] A big congratulations to Jake Barber on his very well-deserved new role in the US Congress! Jake is not only a very brave and inspiring man who is carrying out the most amazing UFO research projects, but also a wonderful human being and a great friend. https://t.co/2yTTRolLtb @jakebarber2025 @EricBurlison
Jake Barber joins Rep. Eric Burlison’s office to help Congress with the push for UFO Disclosure 👽🛸 This is a HUGE development 👀 https://t.co/B5UbMAAsUF http [Quoted] A big congratulations to Jake Barber on his very well-deserved new role in the US Congress! Jake is not only a very brave and inspiring man who is carrying out the most amazing UFO research projects, but also a wonderful human being and a great friend. https://t.co/2yTTRolLtb @jakebarber2025 @EricBurlison
[Retweeted] A big congratulations to Jake Barber on his very well-deserved new role in the US Congress! Jake is not only a very brave and inspiring man who is carrying out the most amazing UFO research projects, but also a wonderful human being and a great friend. https://t.co/2yTTRolLtb @jakebarber2025 @EricBurlison
A big congratulations to Jake Barber on his very well-deserved new role in the US Congress! Jake is not only a very brave and inspiring man who is carrying out the most amazing UFO research projects, but also a wonderful human being and a great friend. https://t.co/2yTTRolLtb @jakebarber2025 @EricBurlison
After 5+ years deep in the modern Swedish ufology landscape, I'm writing an ambitious but rather short book. On how I'm 99% sure regarding the basic binary question - are we alone or not? For reference I've co-founded Citizens for Disclosure Sweden under Danny Sheehan's New Paradigm Institute and been it's national coordinator. I'm in contact during these years with our local UAP-star Dr Beatriz Villarroel (Sol Foundation, VASCO, etc), who has agreed to write the foreword. Personally I'm a ci...
Beyond Institute was my first ever UFO conference and such a great experience 🛸👽🇸🇪 The Q&A is now available to watch on YT https://t.co/dOvQ1uRZw9 [Quoted] Stigma and compartmentalization are effective ways to make knowledge dissipate and prevent it from reaching the public. But what happens when 16 whistleblowers, scientists, and other top ufo experts all sit on the same panel and answer questions from the public, each weighing in from their own perspective in an open exchange? It’s the...
Stigma and compartmentalization are effective ways to make knowledge dissipate and prevent it from reaching the public. But what happens when 16 whistleblowers, scientists, and other top ufo experts all sit on the same panel and answer questions from the public, each weighing in from their own perspective in an open exchange? It’s the opposite of divide and conquer. Some true gems of new information emerged during this discussion. The final Q&A from Stockholm Beyond Sessions #1 is now online....
