In 2025, an astounding finding was announced to the world press.

Photographic plates from early sky surveys showed artificial satellites orbiting the Earth

as early as the 1950s, before humankind had ever launched a single satellite.

What could account for this apparent impossibility?

Well, I'm not saying it's aliens, but...

And in our extended content for premium members, some other interesting stuff I'm doing

with the Space Telescope Science Institute.

All of that and more is coming up right now on Skeptoid.

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In 2025, science news outlets all exploded with what sounded like the story of the century.

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