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A new instrument recently went on-line that will help astronomers in the search for intelligent extraterrestrials. SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) astronomers have scanned the skies with radio telescopes for more than fifty years searching for potential alien communication. Opponents ...

A recent paper in the European Physical Journal highlights a case in 1967 in which mysterious radio signals were discovered by radio astronomers. The possibility of the signals being of extraterrestrial origins caused the astronomers to seriously consider how they would release the information to the public, or if it would be best to bury the information in fear of the temptation to contact potentially hostile ETs.

...these exercises were started by a prominent NSA cryptologist who believed more attention needed to be given to the investigation of UFOs and the possibility that we may be contacted soon.

Astronomers in Australia, Japan, Korea, Italy, the Netherlands, France, Argentina and the United States launched a new coordinated series of observations earlier this month of several nearby stars in their search for intelligent extraterrestrial life.

An astronomer is already claiming to have detected a signal coming from the planet Gliese 581g.