Nine Palomar Lights and the Search for Non-Terrestrial Artifacts in Our Cosmic Backyard

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Beatriz Villarroel’s VASCO project reexamines Palomar’s nine transient lights and historical plates to search for enduring or disappearing non-terrestrial artifacts from advanced civilizations, drawing on ideas from Bracewell probes to ancient Earth technosignatures, while acknowledging mundane explanations and biases and noting that a confirmed discovery would trigger global protocols and collaboration.