The search for alien life is the never ending story. Humanity has been on this adventure for decades, but so far we have not had any success despite all efforts. In fact, this has led to theories that the aliens are avoiding us. However, could the search have come to an end? A recent statement by the China Extraterrestrial Civilizations Research Group, based at Beijing Normal University, so it seems to indicate.
According to the team of researchers from said academic institution, have managed to detect anomalous transmissions using the FAST observatory (Spherical radio telescope of five hundred meters of opening, by its translation into Spanish), the largest currently on Earth. This same observatory will be used within a year to transmit a message to possible alien civilizations in the universe.
The information comes directly from the Journal of Science and Technology, a Chinese government publication. In it, they comment that FAST has discovered potentially suspicious signalsand although one of the theories is that it may come from an extraterrestrial civilization, they still need to confirm and rule out certain data obtained.
In 2020, the team discovered two sets of suspicious signals from extraterrestrial civilizations during data processing from the 2019 “China Sky Eye” co-occurrence survey, and in 2022, the team discovered another suspicious signal from observations. of exoplanet targets.
Professor Zhang Tongjie for the Journal of Science and Technology
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However, Zhang Tongjie also comments that these signals could be caused by radio interference. Of course, discriminating the information to reach a conclusive point could become a fairly long process.
Fortunately, during the process of observing and processing data in recent years, the team has proposed the first multi-beam coincidence model for the search for extraterrestrial civilizations and the frequency and polarization drift criteria for signals from extraterrestrial civilizations by the first time in the international arena, which makes the process of identifying signs of extraterrestrial civilizations more complete from a scientific point of view.
Professor Zhang Tongjie for the Journal of Science and Technology
Also, it is not the first time we have heard this same story. It was August 15, 1977, when the Big Ear radio telescope at Ohio State University detected alleged extraterrestrial artificial signals. However, the report disappeared and there was never a clear explanation for these signs.
Of course, almost half a decade has passed since then, and our technology has improved substantially. But keep your hopes down, there’s always something in the universe we don’t know about that could cause flashy signs in scientific eyes.