{"podcast":{"title":"It’s a Very Exciting Time","slug":"it-s-a-very-exciting-time-5781023","podcast_index_feed_id":5781023,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/b92d6ea0/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://veryexcitingtime.com","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/30967624/30967624-1780878265234-3c6c8190320f4.jpg","author":"Scott Vandehey and Chuck Lauer Vose","episode_count":92,"summary":"A podcast by a UFO nerd and his tolerant friend. Because if UFOs are real… what else? If any of this turns out to be true, it’s a very exciting time!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-19T22:17:41.338773+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-s-a-very-exciting-time-5781023"},"episode":{"title":"Vanishing Stars: Dr. Villarroel’s search for pre-Sputnik satellites","slug":"vanishing-stars-dr-villarroel-s-search-for-pre-sputnik-satellites","published_at":"2025-11-17T04:49:13+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-s-a-very-exciting-time-5781023/vanishing-stars-dr-villarroel-s-search-for-pre-sputnik-satellites","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-s-a-very-exciting-time-5781023","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/very-exciting-time/episodes/Vanishing-Stars-Dr--Villarroels-search-for-pre-Sputnik-satellites-e3b2iis","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/b92d6ea0/podcast/play/111282204/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-10-17%2Fb39256a3-83a2-6dd1-a7f9-9b2f6a3740a7.mp3","summary":"Dr Beatriz Villarroel is a Swedish astronomer and a member of the Sol Foundation, who has recently published three peer-reviewed papers showing evidence for artificial objects in Earth’s orbit before the launch of Sputnik in 1947. The evidence for these claims, and the correlation with historical UFO reports is notable, both for laying out a path for other researchers to reproduce her work at other observatories and for the way it resists any conventional explanations. You can find show notes and references at our website, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠VeryExcitingTime.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , or support us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/VeryExcitingTime⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . 00:00:00 Introduction 00:13:03 Transient Research 00:33:18 Earth’s Shadow 00:47:00 Nuclear Tests and UFOs 00:58:12 Conclusions 01:05:23 Alternate Hypotheses 01:24:40 Non-Human Tech?","meta_description":"Dr Beatriz Villarroel is a Swedish astronomer and a member of the Sol Foundation, who has recently published three peer-reviewed papers showing evidence f…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5574,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/it-s-a-very-exciting-time-5781023/episodes/vanishing-stars-dr-villarroel-s-search-for-pre-sputnik-satellites/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-s-a-very-exciting-time-5781023/vanishing-stars-dr-villarroel-s-search-for-pre-sputnik-satellites.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}