Post by Mike Hawkins UfoVideo Admin on Sept 2, 2004 15:32:59 GMT -5
POSSIBLE ALIEN SIGNALS!!! 
Sept. 2, 2004 — An enigmatic radio signal picked up three times from the same area of the sky is a candidate for a call from intelligent alien life, according to New Scientist magazine.
The magazine reports in its Saturday edition that the SETI Institute has detected the radio signal on three separate occasions with the Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico.
The SETI@home project has been harnessing the computing power of millions of personal computers voluntarily left on to search the skies for ET for nearly six years.
Read about researchers working in the field featured in our Discovery Quest series.
The very weak signal, called SHGb02+14a, emits from between the constellations Pisces and Aries. There is no obvious star or planetary system within 1,000 light years, according to the article.
Dan Werthimer, a radio astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) and the chief scientist for SETI@home, told the magazine the scientists weren't getting to excited, but were continuing to observe the signal.
SHGb02+14a has a frequency of around 1420 megahertz, a frequency that some argue would be one that extraterrestrials would use, since it is one of the main frequencies at which hydrogen absorbs and radiates energy, New Scientist reports.
Sept. 2, 2004 — An enigmatic radio signal picked up three times from the same area of the sky is a candidate for a call from intelligent alien life, according to New Scientist magazine.
The magazine reports in its Saturday edition that the SETI Institute has detected the radio signal on three separate occasions with the Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico.
The SETI@home project has been harnessing the computing power of millions of personal computers voluntarily left on to search the skies for ET for nearly six years.
Read about researchers working in the field featured in our Discovery Quest series.
The very weak signal, called SHGb02+14a, emits from between the constellations Pisces and Aries. There is no obvious star or planetary system within 1,000 light years, according to the article.
Dan Werthimer, a radio astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) and the chief scientist for SETI@home, told the magazine the scientists weren't getting to excited, but were continuing to observe the signal.
SHGb02+14a has a frequency of around 1420 megahertz, a frequency that some argue would be one that extraterrestrials would use, since it is one of the main frequencies at which hydrogen absorbs and radiates energy, New Scientist reports.
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