This seems to be the case for Science and Technology Daily, where intriguing, unusual signals have been interpreted as possibly extraterrestrial - even before any data has been made available in peer-reviewed journals. One of the real problems when the media jumps straight to aliens every time we hear of scientists discovering an anomalous signal is that it erodes trust in science and scientific institutions. This, of course, adds to the intrigue for some - the idea that governments are covering up aliens is a fairly well-established conspiracy (think back to Area 51).īut for me, the deletion is a huge red flag, suggesting that the original reporting shouldn't have been published without a much higher level of scrutiny and going much deeper into the original report. That research is unrelated to the Science and Technology Daily report.īloomberg, and many other publications, noted the original Chinese report has since been deleted, but the reasons for the deletion are unknown. In fact, just last week, Chinese researchers using the telescope announced the discovery of an extremely unusual fast radio burst, a brief blip of a signal from deep space. It can focus on regions of the sky and "listen" for radio signals, and it's one of the most sensitive on Earth to certain electromagnetic frequencies. It referenced unusual signals picked up by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, or FAST, a huge circular dish cut into a Chinese mountaintop. According to Bloomberg, the Chinese report cited "Zhang Tonjie," chief scientist of an extraterrestrial civilization search team co-founded by Beijing Normal University. On June 14, Bloomberg astutely picked up on a report by the website Science and Technology Daily, a Chinese state-backed media outlet. It all starts with a headline: "China Says It May Have Detected Signals From Alien Civilizations." Paris first floated the idea in early 2016 and proposed a program of using radio telescopes to listen for the emission of such radio waves.Have Chinese astronomers stumbled upon the techno-signatures of a distant alien civilization? Unfortunately for UFO tragics and Area 51 fans, the answer is no, but numerous reports over the last 72 hours have suggested an anomalous radio signal from deep space could point to extraterrestrial technology.Īs a science journalist who feels like he's constantly examining bogus claims of extraterrestrial life (and is something of a party pooper), let me explain exactly how we got here. According to the study, Comet 266P/Christensen was in about the right position on the right day in 1977.
In his paper, Paris wrote that comets will, under certain conditions, emit radio waves from the gases that surround them as they zoom closer to the sun. Ehman, now retired, told Live Science that, beyond a certain distance, it's hard to tell how far away a radio signal is coming from. Without a repeat signal, it was impossible to tell what it was even getting a precise location wasn't easy because the signal was short-lived.
But no one expected to see anything like the Wow! signal, and the Big Ear telescope heard nothing like it again.
Ehman marked "Wow!" in red pen on a printout that shows the numbers representing the signal.īack in 1977, the now-dismantled Big Ear telescope was looking for alien signals, in an early iteration of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI. The signal did not repeat, and subsequent attempts to find it proved fruitless. Space Space Entrepreneur Thinks Aliens Are Here.
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