B Villarroel UAPs

Title: Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-I) may be associated with nuclear testing and reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena
​Authors: Beatriz Villarroel and Stephen Bruehl
Publication date: October 2025
Publisher: Scientific Reports
Language: English

Beatriz Villarroel is an assistant professor of astrophysics at the Nordic Institute of Theoretical Physics, Stockholm University.

​In a series of papers published in the fall of 2025, she demonstrated that photographs from surveys of the night sky taken between 1949 and 1957, in the pre-satellite era, contain hundreds of thousands of temporary star-like points of light, called “transients”, not appearing in other images of the sky.

Avi Loeb is the leader of the Galileo Project.
​I was born around those dates in 1952.
Jacques Vallée ufologist
for educational purposes only

Google AI Overview
Baveno
The town is on Lake Maggiore. Maggiore comes from Italian, meaning "greater, larger, or elder", directly from the Latin maior (comparative of magnus, "great"), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European roots for "big" or "great", and was used as a nickname for the eldest son or an honorific, evolving into surnames and place names.
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Origin & Meaning

• Latin Root: The word traces back to Latin maior, the comparative form of magnus (great), signifying "greater or larger"; Ad majorem Dei gloriam (AMDG) for the greater glory of God (Jesuit). (added)
• Italian Usage: In Italian, maggiore means "greater, higher, or elder".

Historical Applications

• Surname: used as a distinguishing byname for the eldest son (e.g., "the elder brother") or as an honorific, similar to English terms like "Major" or "Minor" for brothers
• Military: designating the rank of "major" in the army
• Religious orders: Major or Superior General of an order of priests, brothers, or nuns (added)
• Catholic churches: official designations for certain basilicas (added)​
• Place Names: added to place names (like Campolongo Maggiore) to signify "greater" or "larger" to distinguish from other locations
• Astronomy/constellations: major and minor designations (added)

Linguistic Path

• Proto-Indo-European (méǵh₂s, big/great) → Proto-Italic (magjōs) → Latin (maior) → Proto-Romance (*mayyōrem) → Italian (maggiore)

Beatriz

• Beatriz de Dia (1100s): A noblewoman and one of the few known female troubadours (poets/musicians) from Occitania (southern France)
• Beatrice I, Countess of Burgundy (c. 1140–1185): A powerful countess who married Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa, making her an Empress
• Beatriz of Provence (c. 1229–1267): Queen of France and Sicily, mother of several queens, a significant medieval political figure
• Beatriz Portinari (c. 1266–1290): Dante Alighieri's muse, symbolizing divine love in The Divine Comedy, a key figure in Medieval Italian literature (end of AI)

Aquinas
Josh, a commercial airline pilot, discussed Aquinas (1225-1274), and I said that alien beings were not created from nothing, and though they might possess intelligence and technologies far beyond our own, they are still subject to the morality of the Ten Commandments and could be good or bad, and we are parishioners at St. Stephen, Sacramento.

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Vasco da Gama
The VASCO project ("Vanishing and Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations") is named after the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama.​ You learned about his daring adventure in 3rd grade. I remember because we had a class play and I was Cortés in a field, McLaren Park, SF, but it was cut short by my hay allergy. Yes, the love between teacher and pet was mutual.

Description (Portuguese): A partida de Vasco da Gama a Índia em 1497
العربية: فاسكو دا غاما يغادر إلى الهند في
Author: Roque Gameiro (1864–1935)  
Date: c. 1900
Dimensions: 42 x 57 cm
Collection: National Library of Portugal   
Source/Photographer Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal http://purl.pt/6855
Cota local: E. 294 A

With all the troubles in Europe I'm sure this painting is surveiled and guarded.