People think that space is a quiet
and desolate vacuum of emptiness.
Between the stars and planets,
there exists a vast realm of nothingness.
However, space is very active.
Traveling throughout the cosmos are a variety of signals
broadcasting their presence to anyone who will listen.
Many of these signals are stars, quasars,
and other celestial phenomenon.
Yet some of these signals, perhaps many of them,
are extraterrestrial beings talking to each other,
and perhaps, talking to us.
Stars and planets each have a unique radio signature.
For example, Jupiter's magnetic field hisses in size.
Neptune sounds like a vast, desolate ocean.
The rings of Uranus chime.
And Saturn has an eerie bold sound of wind and tone.
And, of course, the Earth emits a multitude of signals
from all the radio transmitters around the globe,
sending signals into deep space
to anyone who can tune them in.
The question is, is there anyone out there listening?
And if so, are they trying to contact us?
Perhaps, they already have.
On August 15th, 1977,
a strong narrow band radio signal was received
by Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope.
The signal appeared to come from the constellation Sagittarius
and bore the expected hallmarks of extraterrestrial origin.
Astronomer Jerry R. Ehman discovered the anomaly
a few days later while reviewing the recorded data.
He was so impressed by the result,
that he circled the reading on the computer's printout
and wrote the comment, "Wow!" on its side,
which is how the event has since been referred to.
The entire signal's sequence lasted 72 seconds,
the window the Big Ear was able to observe it,
but has not been detected since,
despite several subsequent attempts by Ehman and others.
Various hypotheses on the source of the emission
has been put forward.
Although the possibility of a natural origin
has not been completely discounted,
to date, the "Wow!" signal is considered the best candidate
for an alien radio transmission ever received.
In 2012, on the 35th anniversary of the "Wow!" signal's reception,
scientists at the Arecibo Observatory beamed a response from humanity
containing 10,000 Twitter messages
in the direction from which the signal originated.
They attempted to increase the chances of any intelligent life
receiving and decoding the celebrity videos
and crowd-sourced tweets
by attaching a repeating sequence header to each message,
so the recipient will know that the messages are intentional
and from another intelligent life form.
That signal is now traveling in the direction
of the constellation Sagittarius at the speed of light.
One can only hope it is received by benevolent extraterrestrials.
The "Wow!" signal and our response is not the first time
scientists have intentionally sent a signal into space
with the hope someone may receive it.
In 1974, Carl Sagan sent a broadcast known as the Arecibo message
into space via radio waves.
The message, aimed at ET, was the most powerful
radio broadcast ever beamed into space by mankind.
In comparison, the signal sent out into space
was a million times stronger than that of a typical television transmission.
Directed to a star cluster located over 25,000 light-years away,
the pictorial message was sent in hopes that, one day,
we would receive a similar response.
The radio signal included our planet's location
within our star system,
core principles of math and science,
and the antenna that was used to transmit the signal,
all characteristics that an intelligent alien civilization should understand.
The message, prepared by Carl Sagan and his colleagues,
also included information about our species,
even our physical appearance, as well as our DNA code.
Twenty-seven years later in 2001, a crop circle appeared
shaking the scientific community.
A pattern appeared on a crop field next to the U.K.'s largest telescope
and observatory, the Chilbolton,
where the world's largest fully-steerable meteorological radar is located.
This circle in wheat looked like a response
to the 1974 broadcast.
It was considered by many as one of the most impressive
and important crop circles ever to appear on our planet
since the crop circle, unlike others,
carries a message, or better said, a response from space.
Describing a different solar system in the universe,
the image of the sender, non-human DNA,
and some microwave antenna, the Chilbolton crop circle
was the ultimate response we had ever hoped for.
According to mathematicians, the decimal equivalents of the binary code
were unchanged from the Arecibo original,
but the atomic numbers of the elements
composed the basics of life had been altered.
Silicon, an element with an atomic number of 14,
was added precisely in the correct sequence
between oxygen and phosphorous.
All of the information in the crop image is consistent
with a response from an extraterrestrial source.
Whether or not the crop circle that appeared next to the Chilbolton
was in fact an alien response is still up for debate.
However, many people are firmly convinced
that not only is the crop circle of 2001 a real message
from another intelligent alien civilization in the universe,
but we receive similar messages nearly every day.
Indeed, messages from space have been around
since the inception of radio itself.
Nikola Tesla, the inventor of radio,
was convinced he received messages from aliens
at the turn of the 20th century.
Tesla was the first to attempt to communicate
with neighboring worlds using radio waves.
In 1899, he was at his laboratory in Colorado Springs
driving monstrous surges of power into the Earth
and also, beaming energy outward from the 280-foot tower he had built.
He had instruments to record electromagnetic disturbances
from all around.
During the tests, Tesla began picking up odd data on his instruments.
He was sure that this was a signal of some sort.
Keep in mind that no one at that time could have been transmitting,
other than Marconi who was just beginning tests in Italy.
The signals came periodically and with such a clear suggestion
of number and order that they were not traceable
to any cause then known to man.
Tesla was familiar with electrical disturbances produced by the Sun,
the Aurora Borealis and Earth currents,
and was sure that these variations were due to none of those causes.
A purpose was behind these signals.
They are the results of an attempt by some human beings,
not of this world, to speak to us by signals.
I am absolutely certain that they are not caused
by anything terrestrial.
The feeling is constantly growing on me
that I had been the first to hear the greeting
of one planet to another.
The Martians, or the inhabitants of whatever planet had signaled to us,
would understand that once we had caught their message
across the gulf of space,
and had sent back a response,
to convey a knowledge of form by such means is,
while difficult, not impossible,
and I have already found a way of doing it.
Did Tesla's experiments transmit radio signals
to some of our nearer planets?
Had Tesla unintentionally detected signals from another civilization
or did he simply make an error?
Probably, we'll never know.
Because of his financial problems,
the large part of his research notes and other papers
were auctioned off after his death.
Also lost are much of his other research papers.
How much of Tesla's work remains hidden and confiscated?
It's unknown,
and thus, much of his scientific work of great value
has been lost forever.
In a rare case published in 2016,
scientists have discovered, not radio signals,
but rather, light beams emanating from space
that could be extraterrestrials trying to communicate.
The claim of two scientists that they may have found evidence
of intelligent aliens is raising some astronomers' eyebrows.
Appearing in the journal
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific,
the pair's study reports that 234 stars
out of over two million surveyed,
have signals in the form of light pulses
they say are best explained by intelligent ETs from far away.
After discussing a couple of explanations
for what could be causing the signals,
the study states, "Finally, we considered the possibility,
predicted in our previous published paper,
that the signals are caused by light pulses
generated by extraterrestrial intelligence
to make us aware of their existence."
What's more, these signals have exactly the shape
that scientists would expect to see from intelligent aliens,
according to the study.
But the Berkeley SETI Research Center says
more research is necessary, and it is too early
to unequivocally attribute these purported signals
to the activities of extraterrestrial civilizations.
The organization said that they will observe
some of the stars in question using a nearly eight-foot optical telescope
called the Automatic Planet Finder,
and that they look forward to consulting with the scientists
behind the controversial claim.
The controversy comes onto the heels of new data
about a strange star that's been dimming in recent years
leading some to speculate about an alien megastructure.
Tabby's Star, an F-class star located in the constellation Cygnus
with an official long numerical name,
has befuddled many scientists due to its light emissions.
Unusual light fluctuations of the star were discovered by citizen scientists
as part of the Planet Hunters Project in September of 2015.
Several hypotheses have been proposed
to explain the star's large irregular changes in brightness
as measured by its unusual light curve,
but none have fully explained all aspects of the curve.
The leading hypothesis,
based on a lack of observed infrared light,
suggests a swarm of cold, dusty comet fragments
in a highly eccentric orbit near the star.
Another hypothesis is that of a large number of small masses
in tight formation orbiting the star.
However, the most common and perhaps frightening theory,
is that the changes in brightness could be signs of activity
associated with intelligent extraterrestrial life
constructing a Dyson sphere.
A Dyson sphere is a hypothetical megastructure
that completely encompasses a star
and captures most or all of its power output.
This energy could be used to sustain a civilization indefinitely,
and would explain the 20% loss of light output from the star.
If not a sphere, then possibly, a swarm of satellites,
space stations, or even ships in close formation near the star
could cause this dimming effect.
The SETI Institute's initial radio reconnaissance of Tabby's Star,
however, found no evidence
of technology-related radio signals from the star.
A fundraising campaign was led by Tabetha Boyajian,
the author of the initial study on the star's anomalous light curve.
The project proposes to use
the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network
to continue observation of the star in the future
and observe it in additional wavelengths
to reveal new details on the composition of the objects surrounding the star.
The campaign raised over $100,000,
enough for one year of observations.
Scientists believe the likelihood of extraterrestrial intelligence
being the cause of the dimming is low.
However, the star remains an outstanding SETI target
because natural explanations have yet to fully explain
the dimming phenomena.
Strange signals from space have occurred many times in the past.
Most are either not confirmed,
or do not repeat so they can be clarified.
In 2016, a star in the constellation of Hercules
briefly attracted media attention after it was reported
that a possible SETI signal had been detected
from the direction of the star in the previous year.
The signal was only heard once, and never confirmed by other telescopes
and it is thought to have been due to terrestrial interference,
though no one knows for sure.
It was observed only once, for two seconds,
by a single team at a single telescope.
Several attempts to find and record the signal
were made by astronomers around the world.
No signal was detected at the position and frequency
of the transit reported by the Reitan Group.
In May of 2015, Russian astronomers received a weak signal
from a solar system some 94 light-years away.
That system has a star similar to our Sun.
There's one known planet circling that star,
about the size of Neptune and very close to the star.
The signal was unusual in its design and beam shape.
Astronomers thought the signal was interesting,
but since it didn't repeat, they have nothing more to go on.
Italian scientists were baffled by nearly two dozen radio sources
from deep space that could potentially be coming from extraterrestrial life.
Italian scientists spent several months observing the signals
and could not pinpoint their source.
The absence of light in the optical or ultraviolet spectrums
rules out stars as the source.
On May the 18th of 2016, the scientists wrote
they had detected significant emissions in the soft X-ray band
for nine of the investigated sources.
Because these signals were coming from deep space,
it was not apparent which specific star may be the origin.
The Italian scientists requested further infrared studies
of the area to determine their nature.
"Humans should be extremely wary about answering
any signals from alien civilizations."
That's the stark warning from Professor Stephen Hawking,
who fears extraterrestrials would quickly conquer our planet.
The renowned astrophysicist voiced the fears
during his new online show, Stephen Hawking's Favorite Places.
He believes there could be life on other worlds,
but warns a meeting between civilizations
would resemble when Columbus met Native Americans,
adding that, "That didn't turn out well."
Hawking said as he grows older,
he is more convinced than ever that we are not alone.
One day, we might receive a signal from a planet like this,
but we should be wary of answering back.
Hawking references his involvement in the Breakthrough Listening Project,
a ten-year $100-million initiative funded by a Russian billionaire.
This groundbreaking project aims to fire tiny spacecraft
into the furthest reaches of deep space.
This project also plans on using
the world's most sensitive radio telescopes
to listen in on ten times the amount of sky
than was previously achieved.
Hawking said the real challenge is to work out what aliens
might actually be like.
Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, occur occasionally,
and no one knows what is causing them.
Usually, an FRB only happens once,
a single burst coming from an unknown part of the sky.
But in a paper published in Nature,
researchers found a repeating sequence of a total of ten FRBs.
Not only did these bursts repeat,
but their brightness and spectra also differ from those of other FRBs.
So, now, instead of just one strange category
of weird radio signals,
astronomers have a totally new category to deal with.
There is some speculation
that instead of being caused by an explosion or other cataclysm,
these repeating FRBs was caused by a rotating neutron star,
but they won't know until they can get more information.
The universe is teeming with weird and unusual radio signals.
Many boggle the mind as to where they may be coming from, or from whom,
but space is not the only place you can find strange signals.
Here on Earth, there are radio transmitters sending signals
that may be intended for extraterrestrial ears.
Here on Earth, there is a phenomenon of bizarre radio signals
you can listen to yourself.
No one knows their purpose, or in some cases,
where they are being broadcast from.
They are called number stations,
and could be a way governments communicate with spies,
or even ETs living here on Earth.
Most assume a number station
is a category of shortwave radio stations characterized by broadcasts
of formatted numbers addressed to intelligence officers
operating in foreign countries.
Most identified stations use speech synthesis to vocalize numbers,
although the digital modes such as phase-shift keying
and frequency-shift keying,
as well as Morse code transmissions are also used.
UVB-76, also known as The Buzzer,
is the nickname given by radio listeners to a shortwave radio station
that broadcasts on the frequency of 4625 kilohertz.
It broadcasts a short, monotonous buzz tone
repeating at a rate of approximately 25 tones per minute,
24 hours a day.
Sometimes, The Buzzer's signal is interrupted,
and a voice transmission in Russian takes place.
The first reports were made of a station on this frequency in 1982.
Its origins have been traced to Russia.
And although several theories with varying degrees
of plausibility exist,
its actual purpose has never been officially confirmed
and remains a source of speculation.
The creepy and, sometimes, incoherent broadcasts from UVB-76
sounds like this.
Other number stations have different broadcasts, such as these.
Zero, two, five, eight, eight.
Whatever these signals are,
they have mystified listeners since the 1970s
when they were first detected by amateur radio enthusiasts.
Since then, listeners have monitored these stations
and heard many bizarre things.
Such as what appears to be phone conversations,
alien signals, alien language,
and even a fight with the microphone accidentally left open.
Using modern computer technology and audio software,
listeners have scoured the signals for hidden messages
and signals within signals.
Both male and female voices have been heard.
Since their discovery, a small group of station enthusiasts
have kept a close ear on these broadcasts,
listening intently for whatever they do next.
Internet message boards and groups have been founded
to report unusual things heard from these transmitters.
Whatever these signals are, like all AM broadcasts,
they travel away from our planet into deep space,
and may even be some encrypted communication
with extraterrestrial receivers,
though their purpose can only be imagined.
It is entirely possible that aliens have been receiving
our signals and have been messing with our own spacecraft.
Space probe Voyager 2, during its path through space,
sent a message to its base on Earth in a quite unintelligible language.
NASA, after over six years, did not know the reason,
but they know that it cannot be accidental.
Voyager 2 is the first spacecraft to leave the solar system in 2010,
and it was in the moments when the spacecraft
would enter into interstellar space that a strange thing happened.
NASA would consider someone or something had assumed control over it.
NASA rebooted the spacecraft's computer to erase its message
and now Voyager is continuing on its mission.
Voyager 2 also contains a recording for ET should it ever be discovered by aliens.
Perhaps they did, and used the spacecraft's own transmitter to reply.
NASA also reported
that one of the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatories,
known as the STEREO-B spacecraft,
has made contact after two years of silence.
When STEREO-B went quiet in October of 2014,
it was hardly considered a failure.
Its mission was only supposed to last for two years.
Like many NASA spacecraft,
the STEREO probes have been exceeding their shelf life.
For some reason, the team still isn't sure exactly why,
the spacecraft reacted poorly to the hard reset
that its sister probe breezed right through.
STEREO-B let out a single weak signal, then went quiet.
Twenty-two months after the silent treatment began,
STEREO-B came back in communication with the Deep Space Network,
the antenna system
that NASA uses to pick up signals from its missions.
No one knows what it was doing for 22 months.
In 1999, a disaster investigation board
reported that NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter
burned up in the Martian atmosphere because engineers failed to convert units
from English to metric.
The $125-million satellite was supposed to be
the first weather observer on another world.
But as it approached the red planet to slip into a stable orbit,
September 23rd, the Orbiter vanished.
Scientists quickly realized it was gone for good.
It was pretty clear that morning, within half an hour,
that the spacecraft had more or less
hit the top of the atmosphere and burned up.
NASA blamed themselves for the error,
but was never sure exactly what caused the crash.
The Russian Phobos program was an unmanned space mission
consisting of two probes launched by the Soviet Union
to study Mars and its moons Phobos and Deimos.
Phobos 1 was launched on the 7th of July of 1988,
and Phobos 2 on the 12th July of 1988,
each aboard a Proton-K rocket.
Phobos 1 suffered a terminal failure en route to Mars.
Phobos 2 attained Mars orbit,
but contact was lost before the final phase
prior to deployment of a planned Phobos lander.
Phobos 1 operated normally until an expected communications session
on September 2nd failed to occur.
The failure of controllers to regain contact
with the spacecraft was traced to an error
in which they had deactivated the attitude thrusters.
By losing its lock on the Sun,
the spacecraft could no longer properly orient its solar arrays,
thus, depleting its batteries.
No one knows if the software was tampered with.
Phobos 2 arrived in January of 1989,
and entered in orbit around Mars as the first phase
towards its real destination, a small Martian moon called Phobos.
The mission was flawless,
until the craft aligned itself with the moon.
On March 28, 1989, an elliptical object was detected
moving towards the satellite seconds before it failed.
All indications were that the elliptical object
had attacked the satellite,
which was now dead and left spinning out of control.
On March 28th of 1989,
TASS, the official Soviet News Agency stated,
"Phobos 2 failed to communicate with Earth as scheduled
after completing an operation around the Martian moon Phobos.
Scientists at mission control have been unable to establish
stable radio contact."
But the next day, a top official of the Soviet Space Agency said,
"Phobos 2 is 99% lost for good."
It is important to note that he stated the entire satellite was gone,
and not just contact with it.
Of great interest to ufologists was an image captured
either on or above the surface of Mars,
commonly called The Shadow.
Whatever caused this has never been determined.
If it was indeed a craft, it is of immense size.
On March 31st, 1989,
headlines dispatched by Moscow correspondents
of the European News Agency stated,
"Phobos 2 Captured Strange Photos of Mars
Before Losing Contact With Its Base."
The space probe Phobos 2, which was orbiting above Mars
when Soviet scientists lost contact with it,
had photographed an unidentified object on the Mars surface
seconds before losing contact.
Scientists described the unidentified object
as a "thin ellipse, 20 kilometers long."
It was further stated that the photos could not be an illusion
because it was captured by two different cameras,
as well as cameras taking infrared shots.
One controller at the Kaliningrad Control Center
concluded that the probe was now spinning out of control.
It would seem that something struck or shot the Phobos 2 probe.
It has long been rumored that Mars and its moon, Phobos,
are alien colonies.
The surface of Mars is covered with strange shapes, buildings
that do not appear to be natural,
such as pyramids, square buildings, runways.
Phobos itself has an unusual monument on it
that has never been carefully photographed or explored.
An alien UFO anomaly caused the explosion
of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket
slated to carry Facebook's Amos-6 satellite to space.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploded on the launchpad 40
during a pre-launch static fire test at Cape Canaveral
September the first of 2016.
The explosion, according to a statement released on Facebook
by Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or SpaceX,
was caused by an anomaly
that developed around the upper-stage oxygen tank.
The official video of the test firing of the rocket shows
a UFO flying at an incredible rate of speed
past the space vessel and launchpad just before it exploded.
A welder at the site posted a message
that several minutes before the launch,
personnel at the site had spotted UFOs in the sky over the facility.
The video shows an object flying over and past the launchpad
seconds before the explosion.
Conspiracy theory analysis insists
that the mysterious object was not a bird or a bug.
High magnification analysis of the video, according to UFO researchers,
shows an object that is clearly distinguishable in appearance
and flight characteristics from all other birds
that can be seen in the video flying in the vicinity of the launchpad
before the explosion.
To date, no one knows what caused the anomaly,
and with a UFO clearly in the video frames,
one can only imagine the true nature of this incident.
To astronomers,
black holes are the largest vacuum cleaners of the universe.
Things go in but never come out.
Two of NASA's space telescopes,
including the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array,
miraculously observed a black hole's corona
launched away from the supermassive black hole.
Then a massive pulse of X-ray energy spewed out.
So what exactly happened?
That's what scientists are trying to figure out now.
The gravity is so strong around a black hole,
that it was believed that nothing in the known universe
could come out of a black hole, even light gets sucked in.
It seems that we have been able to observe a phenomenon
that has completely changed how we thought black holes functioned.
An object actually exited the corona of the black hole,
and afterwards a flare of X-ray energy followed suit
leaving us completely baffled.
When you think about how huge this object is,
it really makes us wonder what it could possibly be.
The black hole itself is five billion light-years away,
and the object itself was thousands of miles wide.
The radio X-ray transmission of this event
was as much energy as the galaxy itself contains.
This event has caused many to speculate that aliens may be using black holes
to travel from one galaxy to another,
using their unique power to fold space
and travel great distances in a matter of a few minutes.
Sometimes, flares are seen in this area.
Sometimes, up to ten per week.
Some speculate that this could be the traffic of spacecraft
using the black hole as a gateway to distant locations.
If black holes and cosmic space travelers are not enough,
speech patterns have been found in a radio signal released in 2004
recorded by the Cassini spacecraft
when it passed through Saturn's rings.
Judge for yourself what the voices are saying.
It is a very bizarre anomaly, but very much worth investigating.
Many researchers claim to hear voices in these sounds,
leading people to wonder if alien transmissions
are caught in the rings of Saturn,
and are bouncing around off the magnetic metals in the rings.
In fact, some of these odd sounds could very well be
from alien transmissions.
Another weird phenomena is called sky wave transmissions.
This is where transmissions from Earth are reflected back
and are received years later.
For example, on January the 15th of 2014,
Henry Palabyab recorded the now famous Hindenburg Disaster
radio transmission from 1937.
He was testing his home-brewed transmitter,
recording his voice on 890 kilohertz,
and the radio broadcast came in.
...ship are just holding it,
just enough to keep it from...
It burst into flames! Get this, Charlie! Get this, Charlie!
It's burning and it's crashing! It's crashing terrible!
Oh, my! Get out of the way, please.
It's burning, bursting into flames and it's falling on the mooring mast,
and all the folks agree that this is terrible.
This is one of the worst catastrophes in the world.
At first, he thought it may be a rebroadcast from a local station,
but later found out that other frequencies
were also receiving signals around the 1930s
when he heard the station's ID and did some research.
Radio scientists predict that in a few years,
the famous Orson Welles' War of the Worlds broadcast
may be able to be received again.
Sky wave propagations is a known scientific fact
and signals traveling through space could get bounced around
and received on Earth many times before they eventually fade away.
If aliens are more advanced than us,
many scientists believe that they would not use
crude radio transmissions to communicate at all.
All matter vibrates at a consistent rate.
Even the fabric of the physical universe itself
has a vibratory frequency.
String theory says the universe is made of multiple kinds of vibrations.
The vibrations are called strings because they are one-dimensional,
like the strings on a guitar.
The theory is, if you pluck one of these strings,
you could send a vibration throughout the universe.
In essence, you would be using the fabric
of the physical universe itself as a carrier,
and layering modulation on that carrier for communication.
Like the Internet, you could send binary messages,
photos, video, voice or music transmissions.
Because the entire universe is being utilized to do this,
distance is not a factor,
because if you pluck the universe here,
it would be heard anywhere within the universe itself.
Aliens tapping in to the fabric of the universe as a carrier
could be sending and receiving transmissions in real-time
from anywhere to anywhere.
Like a cosmic or galactic Internet,
entire civilizations could be talking to each other,
sharing images, schematics, video,
and learning from each other without actually meeting physically
like we do with our primitive Internet.
Vibration is energy, energy is vibration.
All matter is energy, therefore, matter does not exist.
A rock is simply a very low vibration that is so slow,
it appears to be solid.
The space between objects in a vacuum is actually energy.
It is very low vibrations, but exists and takes up space as connected atoms.
This is the fabric of the physical universe itself.
If we could build a device, a galactic modem,
that uses this fabric as a carrier,
we could theoretically log in to the universal Internet,
and communicate with extraterrestrials from nearby or distant galaxies.
We could learn from them and share information about ourselves
while never leaving our own planet.
Imagine the advanced technology we would gain from aliens
many years older than us.
Of course, any species using this technology
would have to be advanced enough to have discovered it in the first place.
We may be like a child discovering the Internet
for the first time.
The universe could be a vast data storage system and network
for life forms to access.
You could write data into any physical object
and store it there.
If a universal Internet does exist that races have been using,
how would they welcome us to their cosmic-information party?
Would we even be able to understand the information
being sent and stored there?
How would we use that information?
Technology can be useful, or harmful in the wrong hands.
Are we ready to join a galactic alliance of people
freely communicating across the cosmos?
If aliens are not using radio and television to communicate,
they may know that we do.
It's possible they have tried to interrupt our transmissions
for messages they feel is important.
In 1977, an unusual transmission was received
by United Kingdom watchers
from someone claiming to be an intergalactic association.
The voice, which was disguised, and accompanied by a deep buzzing,
broke into the broadcast of the local ITV station
Southern Television, overriding the UHF audio signal
of the early evening news being read by Andrew Gardner from ITN,
to warn viewers that "All your weapons of evil must be removed,
and you have but a short time
to learn to live together in peace."
The interruption ceased shortly after the statement had been delivered.
Transmissions returned to normal shortly before
the end of a Looney Tunes cartoon.
Later in the evening, Southern Television apologized
for what it described as,
"a breakthrough in sound for some viewers."
ITN also reported on the incident in its own late evening Saturday bulletin.
The broadcast took over the sound only, leaving the video signal unaltered,
aside from some picture distortion.
The incident caused some alarm locally,
and attracted considerable publicity in the next day's Sunday newspapers.
The winter 1977, 24th issue of Fortean Times Magazine
featured a transcript of what they described
as the short message that was broadcast.
At times, it is difficult to make out.
However, here is the entire message that was recorded along with text.
The message began with a series of beeps, and then...
...use your imagination...
To this day, the source of the transmission
has never been determined.
But if it was indeed an alien broadcast,
it seemed to be a dire warning for mankind,
and yet, hope towards the end.
Though the message occurred in 1977,
it fits our current political situation and world conditions perfectly.
Is it possible that aliens from space
have been monitoring us, know our future,
and are trying to warn us with signals of extraterrestrial origin?
Let's imagine super-intelligent jellyfish,
searching for life beyond the ocean.
So they send out pheromone signals.
We, humans, nor any land animals, are able to pick up these signals
or respond to them in any way that the jellyfish can.
Wouldn't that be similar to our approach with sending out radio signals into space?
Why do we assume extraterrestrial life is just like us
and can understand our ways of communication?
Perhaps, aliens use some other method for communication.
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI,
is a collective term for the scientific search
for intelligent extraterrestrial life,
monitoring electromagnetic radiation for signs of transmissions
from civilizations on other worlds.
SETI's effort is a passive experiment
designed only to look for signals, not to send them.
However, we are unintentionally transmitting signals into space,
primarily radio, television and radar signals,
for more than 50 years.
Our earliest TV broadcasts would have reached
several thousand nearby stars in a 50 light-year radius.
Although, any alien viewers
would have to build a very large antenna to detect them.
Unless, of course, they have other technologies.
ET may communicate using a variety of methods,
such as light, pressure, sound, and even pheromones,
which, of course, could not travel between stars.
However, like us, they may send probes to explore distant worlds.
Just as we have sent Voyager and Pioneer probes
beyond our solar system,
aliens may have probes on their way here, right now.
Somewhere between interstellar spaces,
a tiny space probe from another planet
may be whisking its way through the ether for a final approach
to the gravitational pull of our solar system.
It could be transmitting curious beeps, hoping we will detect it.
It's entirely possible they may attempt to contact us,
or any other civilization via some non-physical method,
such as astral travel or inter-dimensional communication.
Multiple signals and forms of communication could be out there
that we are simply not spiritually advanced enough to acknowledge.
Of course, aliens may have absolutely no interest in us.
They could be completely aware of our existence,
yet have no desire to talk to us.
It's also possible they may go to great lengths
to keep us from detecting any of their transmissions.
They could simply be xenophobic or afraid of us.
Modern UFO sightings would seem to support this idea,
since no flying saucer has made any effort
to land in an obvious place and its occupants
request an audience with Earth leaders.
UFOs appear to visit, do whatever they need to do
then leave without any specific effort to communicate directly with us.
Beyond the few abduction cases,
where abductees are given messages or instruction,
the aliens seem to have apathy towards us all as a species.
In some cases, having no more emotion towards us
than a scientist would have for a lab rat.
Science, of course, requires physical proof.
Something they can touch and test.
For them, abductions are just unsubstantiated stories.
If we do receive a signal from space
that is confirmed to be from extraterrestrials,
there are a number of protocols nations would take
to issue this information.
First, it would need to be confirmed,
then the most likely scenario
would be for the United Nations to issue a media report,
and the U.S.A. President would probably issue a statement
regarding the signal and appease the public.
After that, our world would change in dramatic and subtle ways.
We would no longer think of ourselves as nations
on an isolated planet alone in the night.
Instead, we would likely embrace the knowledge
that we are not alone and live in a vast universe
with galactic neighbors.
Our religions and beliefs would need to adjust
to this new concept, which would take time.
Just like the paradigm shift that occurred when the world
slowly came to acknowledge our planet was round and not flat,
and was not the center of the universe,
our concepts and ideas will change to include this new paradigm.
All of this could begin with a simple repeated beep
from some source coming from the vastness of outer space.