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   ocr: 9 91 SETI THE SEARCHI FOR LIFE Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) THE SETIPROGRAM METEORITES Sightings of UFOS and so-called "flying saucers" raise an essential question: Is there intelligent life in the Universe - G beyond Earth? One way of trying to answer this is by listening to signals from space. Inl 1960, Frank D. Drake, a young American astrophysicist, built a special radio telescope equipped with a receiver and aimed it at two nearby stars, Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani. Camille Flammarion had noted the peculiar Tau Ceti in 1882, when he wrote: "The whale star, Tau Ceti, is rema ...