Nobody believes it was ET phoning, but radio
astronomers admit they don’t have an explanation yet for a beam of radio
waves that apparently came from the direction of the star Proxima
Centauri.
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By Dennis Overbye
New York Times
12-31-20
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“It’s some sort of technological signal. The question is whether it’s Earth
technology or technology from somewhere out yonder,” said Sofia Sheikh, a
graduate student at Pennsylvania State University leading a team studying the
signal and trying to decipher its origin. She is part of Breakthrough Listen, a
$100 million effort funded by Yuri Milner, a Russian billionaire investor, to
find alien radio waves. The project has now stumbled on its most intriguing pay
dirt yet.
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