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- SETI Signal
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- From: Kane Guy
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- Hi All!
-
- I know this file is a little old, but I thought it would at least provoke
- some more 'discussion' on the subject of whether life exists beyond our
- planet. ;)
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- "SETI RECEIVES A SIGNAL?"
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- A REMARKABLE REPORT
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- On Saturday the 10th of February 1996, at approximately 7:05 am,
- a report was aired on BBC Radio 5 Live's morning news that should
- have stunned the world into silence. A report so profound that it
- should have entirely changed the human races attitude to the world
- in which we live, and forever changed our perception of life, the
- universe, and well, everything! The report stated that the SETI
- (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) project had picked up
- an unusual signal coming from one of the planets that had recently
- been discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope. The signal was
- believed to be artificial in nature.
-
- Now a story of this magnitude should have been all across the
- worlds media within a matter of hours. Experts should have been
- dragged from their weekend relaxation to give their insightful
- analysis on this most remarkable of events. The content hungry,
- all consuming, rolling news networks now in existence should have
- provided wall to wall media coverage, 24 hours a day for a
- captivated audience, because at last it would be official that the
- human race is not alone.
-
- With the above in mind it will undoubtedly come as a shock to some
- readers that apart from the BBC, I have only been able to find two
- other sources that reported what should have been the most
- remarkable event in the history of the human race. So why was this
- report not more widely covered by the mainstream news media? Was
- it a hoax, false information, a false alarm, or was there something
- more sinister behind the distinct lack of coverage? In my opinion
- these questions needed to be answered, so following in the footsteps
- of countless other intrepid investigators before me, I set off in
- pursuit of the truth.
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- EARTH LISTENS TO MARS
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- Strange as it may seem, reports of signals being received from outer
- space are not as unusual as they at first may sound. The first
- report comes from the father of radio himself, Marconi, who whilst
- experimenting with his new invention managed to pick up a series of
- coded signals that appeared to be similar to Morse code. Despite
- intensive study these signals could not be decoded, and after
- racking his brains Marconi's only possible explanation was that they
- had to have originated from space. It was therefore a very
- surprised and somewhat bemused American press who heard the
- announcement in New York by J.C.H. MacBeth, the London Manager for
- the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, that the Earth was in the
- process of communicating with beings from the planet Mars!
-
- Needless to say the signals received by Marconi have still not been
- explained to this day, but they did, in part, inspire the now
- almost forgotten "Listening In" project during the summer of 1924.
- The aim of this project was to silence all terrestrial radio
- communications for 5 minutes on the hour, every hour, for a period
- of two days during Mars' closest approach to the Earth. This would
- hopefully create the optimum conditions to listen for any radio
- broadcasts that may come from the red planet. The project utilized
- the newly developed "radio photo message continuous recording
- machine", which produced flashes of light which were then recorded
- on film whenever an incoming message was detected.
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- After 36 hours of recording, the film was developed and Francis
- Jenkins, the machines inventor, told a stunned press conference
- that the device had indeed received signals and that in addition to
- a fairly regular arrangement of dots and dashes the film also
- showed "a repetition at intervals of about a half hour what appears
- to be a human face, and it's a freak which we can't explain". What
- was surprising about this project was that it was fully supported
- by the United States Government, who used all of their diplomatic
- influence to try to persuade other countries to observe the radio
- silence. This government support does, of course, not tend to
- support the current vogue theories of cover-ups and misinformation
- campaigns, but then again 1924 was before Roswell.
-
-
- THE VOICE OF GLON
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- All of these reports almost inevitably involve only a few witnesses
- or individuals working alone, however there is one report of a
- signal from space that was witnessed by literally millions. On the
- evening of the 26th of November 1977, viewers of TVS, a regional TV
- station in England, and listeners of LBC, a regional radio station
- in London, were amazed when their normal programming was interrupted
- by the "Voice of Glon" from the "Asteron Galactic Command". Glon,
- who claimed to be broadcasting from space, went on to say how
- disappointed he was by the human races stewardship of the planet
- Earth, and in a very similar vein to many of today's abduction
- accounts, Glon told a stunned audience that our planet was only
- decades away from destruction. The broadcast was heard over a
- large part of southern England with the result that police
- switchboards were swamped with calls from the general public who
- were alarmed and frightened by the mysterious message.
-
- Although this transmission was widely passed off as a hoax
- perpetrated by a high spirited student, a TVS official was later
- forced to admit that "our engineers are trying to discover exactly
- what happened. We can't imagine how it was done, but it appears
- that someone must have managed to transmit a signal directly over
- ours. The equipment used would need to be very sophisticated and
- expensive.". So did the authorities, via the media, try to
- suppress this story by claiming it was a hoax? I must admit that
- it could certainly be seen that way by many of the conspiracy
- lobby. Broadcasting on any commercial frequency without permission
- is a serious offense in the UK, but despite an extensive police
- investigation no one was ever suspected, let alone charged for the
- offense, and hardly any mention of this bizarre message has ever
- been repeated.
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- Cointinued in next message.....
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