A NASA filmmaker claims that a telescope on Earth has discovered evidence of intelligent alien life, and an announcement could be made within the next month.
Simon Holland, a science filmmaker who has worked on projects with the BBC, Nat Geo and NASA, said: mirror Last week, it was announced that two groups of astronomers are racing to publish the first confirmed evidence of a possible extraterrestrial civilization.
“A non-human extraterrestrial intelligence has been discovered in our galaxy, but people don't know about it,” Holland said.
The filmmaker claims that Mark Zuckerbeg's contacts within Breakthrough Listen, a privately funded scientific research program aimed at finding evidence of extraterrestrial civilizations, shared the information with him. .
“They discovered evidence of non-human technological signatures a few years ago using the Parkes telescope in Australia,” he told the media.
Mr Holland claims Oxford-based project astronomers have identified clear evidence of communications from another world and could announce their findings within the next month.
Groundbreaking claims require significant evidence, and astronomers are now racing to gather more supporting facts to make this discovery clear.
However, the Netherlands said China may try to defeat them.
“This is breaking news as of yesterday, but the Chinese may send them into the post in a swift attack.” [Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope] program. This is the biggest telescope in the world since Arecibo,” Holland told the Mirror.
The Chinese reportedly know the coordinates of a target object known as BLC-1 (Breakthrough Listening Candidate 1) and are competing with an Oxford-based project to be the first to announce the announcement. There is.
Holland said BLC-1 is considered the most promising because it appears to come from a “single point source.”
The radio signal was first detected in April 2019 from the Australia-based Parkes Telescope. Frequency 982MHz.
The signal appeared from the region around the star Proxima Centauri, about 4.2 light-years from Earth.
Breakthrough Listen purchased “$100 million” of telescope time and began reviewing five potential candidates, one of which was BLC-1, Holland claimed. YouTube video In it he further explained the signals.
The signal was locked in because it appeared to be coming from one specific point and was a “narrow band.”
“Instead of making sounds in the radio telescope spectrum with big buzzing waves like hydrogen, this was a small electromagnetic frequency,” the filmmakers said, adding, “It was similar to the kinds of frequencies we use on Earth. ” he added. Radio broadcast. ”
Holland shared the most “important clue” that the single came from “a planet orbiting a distant star” and that there was likely a “Doppler shift.”
Doppler shift is the change in the frequency of a wave for an observer moving relative to the source of the wave.
The signal increased or decreased as the Parkes telescope tracked a single point source to keep it in focus, adjusting to Earth's rotation.
Holland said that although the planet that is the source of the sound appears to be rotating, he believes it is “not caused by human intervention.”
“The problem is, the aliens weren't saying hello, we're here. If they were going about their normal lives, they'd be just buzzing around. “, Holland believes.
Holland said he contacted Dr. Andrew Simeon, the principal investigator at Berkeley who runs the Breakthrough Listening Science program, and asked whether BLC-1 was a “technical feature.”
“He said, 'When will we have enough data to confirm what this single point source on a planet rotating in a narrow band of electromagnetic frequencies actually is, and once we have enough data? , I'm going to make it public,''' Simeon reportedly said. I told him.
But Holland emphasizes that whatever the source of BLC-1's signal, it is different from any known natural phenomenon.
The Oxford University team confirmed it was analyzing the signal, but declined to say what the possible source was. daily mail.
Scientists appear to be taking great care before publishing their findings, but Holland feels they will be able to share their findings once Oxford's Breakthrough Listen and groups in China review the data. .
