Is this proof aliens are trying to contact us?

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A huge Russian telescope in a remote part of the Caucasus detects a mysterious burst of radio signal coming from far away in outer space.

It’s traced to a 6.3 billion-year-old star in a constellation 94.4 light years away from Earth, meaning the radio waves have been travelling across the universe to us since 1922.

The implications are mind-blowing as scientists across the globe rush to their telescopes. Could it really be that an alien civilisation far more advanced than ours is trying to make contact?

As a mysterious burst of radio signal is detected from outer space... Is this proof aliens are trying to contact us?


Questions raised after Zelenchukskaya, Russia, telescope picked up signal

It was traced to a 6.3 billion-year-old star 94.4 light years away from Earth

Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) institute is investigating


By Tom Leonard for the Daily Mail
1 September 2016

A huge Russian telescope in a remote part of the Caucasus detects a mysterious burst of radio signal coming from far away in outer space.

It’s traced to a 6.3 billion-year-old star in a constellation 94.4 light years away from Earth, meaning the radio waves have been travelling across the universe to us since 1922.

The implications are mind-blowing as scientists across the globe rush to their telescopes. Could it really be that an alien civilisation far more advanced than ours is trying to make contact?


The signals has prompted questions about the existence of alien civilisations in outer space

We’ve seen this gripping scenario play out a hundred times before in Hollywood feature films about alien contact.

Ultimately, the only question mark is whether they’re trying to extend the hand of peace or are intent on hovering over the White House for a few nail-biting hours before blowing us all to kingdom come.

Only this time, the reports of a possible extraterrestrial transmission are real.

An international team from the U.S.-based Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) institute is investigating a burst of microwave radiation, lasting no more than two seconds, that was picked up on May 15 last year by the RATAN-600 observatory in Zelenchukskaya, a hilly region close to the border with Georgia.

The discovery was initially kept secret as the scientists involved wanted to announce it in their own time, but it has filtered out to a stunned star-gazing community.

After decades in which alien hunters have been fruitlessly scanning the stars and finding no evidence that anyone else is out there, the news from Russia has inevitably sparked enormous excitement.

SETI’s biggest radio telescopes — the monstrous dishes of the Allen Telescope Array in California — have swung into action, focusing their attention on the signal’s source in the vicinity of a sun-like star named, not so excitingly, HD 164595.

The star, which isn’t visible to the naked eye, sits in the Hercules constellation.

The team has yet to find any signals matching those discovered by the Russians, but acknowledge they ‘have not yet covered the full range of frequencies in which the signal could be located’.

The researchers who discovered the signal have called for the target solar system to be monitored permanently for any new possible communications.


A Russian radio telescope, similar to the Lovell radio telescope at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, northwest England (pictured), picked up the signal

The star appears to have a size and temperature similar to the Sun. The only known planet in its system is a ‘warm Neptune’, so called because it is gaseous, like the planet Neptune.

This Neptune, however, orbits its sun in only 40 days. Though it is not considered likely as a source of life, there are probably other planets — rocky ones far more suitable for life — in the same system.

On one fact, the experts seem certain. If the signal really did come from an extraterrestrial beacon, the aliens who sent it are hugely more advanced than we are.

Just how advanced depends on whether they were targeting Earth or transmitting radio waves in all directions.

According to Seth Shostak, an astronomer at SETI, the energy a beacon would need to produce to send a signal in all directions this far into space would be a mind-blowing 100 quintillion watts.

‘It’s hundreds of times more than all the energy falling on the Earth from sunlight,’ he says.

It goes without saying this would require a power source far beyond anything that exists on Earth.

SETI — which was founded in the Seventies and is financed by private donors and U.S. government agencies — uses its own scale, called the Kardashev after the Soviet astronomer who created it, to measure the advancement of an alien civilisation.


Astronomer Seth Shostak says the energy a beacon would need to produce to send a signal in all directions this far into space would be a mind-blowing 100 quintillion watts


Image of HD 164595

An extra-terrestrial culture that might be able to send such a signal in all directions would be a Kardashev Type II civilisation, capable of tapping all the energy of its sun.

The most popular hypothetical means of doing this is a so-called Dyson sphere (nothing to do with the vacuum cleaners), a Star Wars-style device that would cover the entire sun and transfer its energy to the planet.

If, however, rather than broadcasting in all directions, the alien civilisation is instead purposefully aiming its signal at us, the power it would need drops significantly, to a little over a trillion watts.

That’s 100,000 times less power than is needed to send a signal throughout the universe, but it’s still a huge amount — comparable to the total energy consumption of the Earth’s entire human population.

‘All the cars, all the planes, all the electronic devices, everything,’ says Shostak. ‘This is not a high-school science project.’

Such a radio signal could point to a (relatively) less advanced Kardashev Type I civilisation, which is only able to harness the sunlight falling on its planet.

But scientists don’t think it likely that anyone would want to target our solar system with a strong signal.

After all, the star system from where the radio burst is believed to have come is so far away the inhabitants would not yet have picked up the radar and TV signals that would reveal to them we exist. That is because neither existed 94 years ago: the time it would take for such signals to reach our possible ‘new neighbours’.

So, while the internet was sent into a frenzy about HD 164595, astronomers are more sceptical.

No one in the scientific community has said the signal must have definitely come from an extra- terrestrial radio signal. In fact, as experts have warned, there are a other plausible explanations.

Radio interference from Earth is the most likely alternative. Radio telescopes have been known to pick up rogue signals caused by mobile phones, microwave ovens and even flushing lavatories.

Another possibility is stellar flares, sudden bursts of energy released by stars, which can produce the sort of one-off, powerful signal the Russian observatory detected.

A further potential explanation is that the spike in the radio wave was caused by a spy satellite.

The telescope that detected the signal, operated by the Russian Academy of Science, is the only one that has so far picked it up.
Sceptics say they won’t take the signal seriously as a possible extra- terrestrial contact until it is recorded by another observatory.

After so many years on the trail, alien hunters are anxious to find corroborating evidence.

The astronomer Jill Tarter, the former head of SETI and the scientist on whom Jodie Foster’s character was based in the alien encounter film Contact, is keeping an open mind. ‘HD 164595 — who knows? One telescope is not enough and an array is better,’ she says.



Believer: Dr Jill Tarter (left) was the inspiration for the film Contact starring Jodie Foster (right)

It is no wonder they are keen for more information.

The signal from HD 164595 is intriguing, because it comes from the vicinity of a sun- like star.

‘If it’s artificial, its strength is great enough that it was clearly made by a civilisation with capabilities beyond those of humankind,’ says Douglas Vakoch, an astronomer at METI International, a research body that wants to send signals to extraterrestrials as well as pick up their messages.

Back on Earth, a squabble is growing. SETI has accused the Russian observatory of breaching star- gazing protocol by not alerting other researchers in time for them to confirm its observation.


Astronomer Jerry Ehman famously registered a 72-second intense blast of radio waves from a group of stars called Chi Sagittarii in the late 1970s and wrote ‘Wow!’ in his notes


Some experts fear it may be too late to double-check the radio signal from the Hercules constellation, leaving it to become another so-called ‘Wow!’ signal that extraterrestrial researchers pick up for a tantalising moment, but are frustratingly never able to explain.

In Ohio in 1977, astronomer Jerry Ehman famously registered a 72-second intense blast of radio waves from a group of stars called Chi Sagittarii and wrote ‘Wow!’ in his notes. The signal never returned.

But in some quarters, there are increasing hopes of an answer to the old question: is there anyone out there?

Scientists have assumed since the Fifties that if there are aliens, they may be beaming radio waves into space, deliberately or accidentally.

The question was to find the right frequency and then tune in. However, under-funding of research has meant experts have been able to scan only a tiny fraction of space.

A $100 million project, Breakthrough Listen, funded by Russian technology entrepreneur Yuri Milner and backed by the scientist Stephen Hawking, launched this year to re-energise the hunt for ET.

It has assigned two of the world’s biggest radio telescopes to focus on the million nearest star systems.

Some sceptics, however, wonder whether it isn’t terribly old- fashioned to be searching for radio waves, speculating that aliens may be communicating across the universe in far more technologically advanced ways.


Anybody out there? Dr Tarter on a platform 500ft above the huge radio telescope dish where she directs the search for signs of civilization in outer space

Of course, the bigger question remains: does anyone out there actually want to contact us?

In his novel The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells had little doubt that the Martians, stuck on their cold, rocky planet, would covet Earth jealously.

But that was before Nasa sent out the unmanned Voyager spacecraft in 1977, loaded with golden phonograph records as messages from Earth to any intelligent alien life that found them.

The records — accompanied by a printed message from the then U.S. President Jimmy Carter — provided supposedly representative images, sounds and music, including the noise of an industrial rivet gun, a picture of a Chinese dinner party and a recording of Johnny B. Goode by Chuck Berry.

But surely, if there is an alien civilisation orbiting star HD 164595, it sounds far too advanced to have anything so primitive as a record player.

And maybe there are already aliens here...

The eight foot aliens who live on 'Earth 2.0': Discovery of Proxima b just four light years away reignites bizarre 1950s claims beings from the area visit our planet


Discovery of Proxima b has some revisiting a conspiracy theory from 1957

Psychologists said they were visited by 'Hands' through a hypnotic woman

Hands said he is a Cenos alien, beings that helped build the Sphinx

A recent sighting of alien reported in Taiwan near a lake in 2012


By Stacy Liberatore For Dailymail.com
1 September 2016

The European Southern Observatory made an announcement this week that could change life as we know it – ‘a second Earth’ was found orbiting the Proxima Centauri star system.

Now, the discovery of Proxima b has reopened a theory from the 1950s that suggests it is home to eight-foot humanoids known as Cenos aliens who have been visiting Earth for centuries.

This bizarre story comes from psychologists who claimed they spoke with a ‘lovable and childlike’ being that had eight hands and a body structure similar to a praying mantis known as ‘Hands’.


This bizarre story comes from psychologists who claimed they spoke with a ‘lovable and childlike’ being that had eight hands and a body structure similar to a praying mantis known as ‘Hands’, which was claimed to have been spotted in Taiwan in 2012 (picture form news station)

Thousands of exoplanets have been discovered before, but unlike the others, Proxima b is only four light years, or 25 trillion miles, away.

The red dwarf star it orbits is part of the star system Alpha Centauri, which consists of Alpha Centauri A, Alpha Centauri B and Proxima Centauri.

Now, alien hunters and Martian researchers alike are buzzing about the latest astronomical find, reports The Inquisitr.

Members of this community are revisiting the tale of the Cenos aliens from the Proxima Centauri star system that have not only been coming to Earth for thousands of years, but may also be living among us.

This comes from an alleged confession of an alien from the Alpha Centauri star system that was known as ‘Hands’.

It is said that Hands used a woman under hypnosis to reveal himself as an alien to a team of California psychologists in 1957.

This creature claimed to be from the Alpha Centauri star system and is a ‘lovable and childlike, but huge, being with a dome-shaped body and eight hands, with an intelligence that was perhaps somewhere between that of a human and a dog,’ according to the book ‘Hands: The True Account – A Hypnotic Subject Reports on Outer Space’, which was written by two of the psychologists.

Hands also explained that he and the rest of the 8-foot humanoids had multiple hearts that are five times stronger than the normal humans.

Cenos aliens do not need sleep nor do they suffer from diseases and they can live up to 120 years.


Members of this community are revisiting the tale of the Cenos aliens from the Proxima Centauri star system that have not only been coming earth for thousands of years. It is claimed the creatures have eight hands (Picture shows what is said to be a Cenos aliens)


It is said that Hands used a woman under hypnosis to reveal himself as an alien to a team of California psychologists in 1957. The highlighted section depicts what some say resembles a praying mantis

The book also describes spaceship these creatures used for travel that look similar to a spinning tape recorder, which they used to visit Earth during World War II, and to help earthlings build the Sphinx, Mayan pyramids and other puzzling monuments on our planet.

One of the most recent sightings occurred in 2012 when police officers were near the Jaiming Lake at the city of Taitung in Tawian and captured an image of what they say could be an ‘alien being’.

The Taiwan UFOlogy Society (TUFOS) made a public statement that the photo appears to be ‘a large alien creature, with a transparent body and webbed hands, walking in the distance,’ Taipei Times reported.


The European Southern Observatory made an announcement this week that could change life as we know it – ‘a second Earth’ was found orbiting the Proxima Centauri star system. The discovery of Proxima b has reopened a theory from the 1950s that suggests it is home to eight-foot humanoids known as Cenos aliens, who have been vising Earth for centuries

Huang Chao-ming, chairman of TUFOS, said police gave them the photo that was snapped with an iPhone 4 in order for the group to examine it further.

TUFOS spent a year determining whether the photo was in fact genuine, as the close-up image shows double exposure lines at the bottom.

They have used mobile phone technology, computer imagery and camera photography to study the photo, but have yet to confirm its authenticity.


Cenos aliens visited Earth during World War II, and to help earthlings build the Sphinx, Mayan pyramids and other puzzling monuments on our planet. One of the most recent sightings occurred in 2012 when police officers were near the Jaiming Lake at the city of Taitung in Tawian and captured an image (pictured) of what they say could be an ‘alien being’


TUFOS spent a year determining whether the photo was in fact genuine, as the close-up image shows double exposure lines at the bottom. They have used mobile phone technology, computer imagery and camera photography to study the photo, but have yet to confirm its authenticity

Scott C Waring from UFO Sightings Daily picked up the sighting in 2013 saying, ‘Experts at TUFOS are stating that it is real and that it is 250 cm tall, has a head of a praying mantis and is looking directly at the person taking the photos’, he writes in the blog.

‘Locals in the city of Taitung are saying they believe the small round lakes to be an entrance to an underground alien base.’

‘They also believe a large dirt mound is possibly an ancient pyramid in the area and could be acting as a communication device for aliens’.

Watch video of the Cenos spotted in Taiwan: http://youtu.be/gL7igHAf3tQ

WHAT MAKES PROXIMA B SO UNIQUE

Distance: This is the closest Earth-like planet we could ever find.

Orbiting our nearest star, the planet is only four light years away.

Missions to send spacecraft to the planet to examine for signs of life are already in planning, and could happen within decades.

Composition: The planet is rocky and a similar size to Earth.

Temperature: It lies in the 'habitable zone' of its star, which means there could be liquid water on its surface - a key ingredient for alien life.

The temperature on the surface of the planet could be between -90° and 30° Celsius (-130 and 86 Fahrenheit).

Atmosphere: If Proxima b has an atmosphere, the simple ingredients - water, carbon dioxide, and rock - that are needed for the formation of biochemical cycles that we call life, could all be present and interacting on the planet's surface.


WHAT ARE CENOS ALIENS?


With the recent discovery of Proxima b, alien hunters are revisiting a conspiracy theory from 1957.

California psychologists claim the were visiting by an 'alien entity' that used a woman under hypnosis to reveal himself.

Called 'Hands', this humanoid told the team he is a Cenos alien which are 8 feet tall with multiple hearts that are five times stronger than humans.

They do not need sleep nor do they suffer from diseases and they can live up to 120 years.

This creature claimed to be from the Alpha Centauri star system and is a ‘lovable and childlike, but huge, being with a dome-shaped body and eight hands, with an intelligence that was perhaps somewhere between that of a human and a dog,’ according to the book ‘Hands: The True Account – A Hypnotic Subject Reports on Outer Space’, which was written by two of the psychologists.



 
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Could it really be that an alien civilisation far more advanced than ours is trying to make contact?

I doubt that part. Have we eavesdropped on a transmision made as some aliens were going about their business? Perhaps. That they are trying to communicate with us using a mysterious burst a second and a bit long? Don't you think that they would be a lot clearer and more direct?

Our collective egos know no bounds. Of course, advanced civilizations everywhere are trying to contact US.


Journalists, eh? .....
 

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Could it really be that an alien civilisation far more advanced than ours is trying to make contact?

I doubt that part. Have we eavesdropped on a transmision made as some aliens were going about their business? Perhaps. That they are trying to communicate with us using a mysterious burst a second and a bit long? Don't you think that they would be a lot clearer and more direct?

Our collective egos know no bounds. Of course, advanced civilizations everywhere are trying to contact US.


Journalists, eh? .....

They're doing what we're doing: sending out signals and hope someone, somewhere, picks them up.
 

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They're here to take you home to their planet, where everybody's white and being fat, drunk, and stupid is sexy, Blackshirt.

Better go out on the moors and wait for them, or you'll be left behind!
 

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They're here to take you home to their planet, where everybody's white and being fat, drunk, and stupid is sexy, Blackshirt.

Better go out on the moors and wait for them, or you'll be left behind!

How do you know what it's like on their home planet?