Mysterious lights and reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena ( UAPs ) in the 1940s and 1950s appear to be somehow linked to nuclear testing , scientists have discovered. An analysis of archival astronomical observations, combined with eyewitness accounts of UAPs (the official name for unidentified flying objects), suggests that the nuclear age left its fingerprints on the astronomical record, before the Space Age even began. "Our findings provide additional empirical support for the