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Dr. Steven Greer and Linda Willitz talks about a recent major UFO contact at a CSETI gathering. World Puja Network May 22, 2009

SETI League

Prof. Morison: Do you believe there is intelligent life in the universe?

Dr. Shuch: That’s a fundamental question which has haunted humankind since first we realized that the points of light in the night sky are other suns. What matters most is not what you or I believe, but what we know for certain: that, for the first time in human history, we have the technology to begin to seek a definitive answer. Therefore it behooves us to look, and look well.

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Paul Davies, The Guardian

For the past 40 years a gung-ho group of astronomers has been sweeping the skies with radio telescopes in the hope of stumbling across a message from an alien civilisation. Known by its acronym of Seti – Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence – this enterprise gained popular attention with the Hollywood movie Contact, starring Jodie Foster. It makes good science fiction, but is it good science?

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Philip Morrison

Proposing the Microwave Search..My wartime service as neutron combat engineer over, by the mid -fifties I had made my way to high-energy astronomy. After the success of radio astronomy, the notion of opening new channels was appealing. In 1958 I came to see that gamma rays promised another new channel, and worked out early predictions. One point was their easy crossing of the entire dusty plane of the Galaxy, unlike starlight yet at light speed. My ingenious friend and Cornell colleague, Giuseppe Cocconi, came to me with a question. "We already make gamma- ray beams. (The electron synchrotron at Cornell was then brand-new). Why not send them out across space to see if anyone out there can detect them?" It was a surprising question, but most stimulating. My reply was that we should look at the whole spectrum, radio to gamma rays, and choose the best band for such signals.

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Seth Shostak, SETI Institute, Astrobiology Magazine

Of the many "maybe’s" that SETI has turned up in its four-decade history, none is better known than the one that was discovered in August, 1977, in Columbus, Ohio. The famous Wow signal was found as part of a long-running sky survey conducted with Ohio State University’s "Big Ear" radio telescope.

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Adapted from a SETI Institute press release

California astronomers are broadening the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) by looking for powerful light pulses coming from other star systems. Scientists from the University of California’s Lick Observatory, the SETI Institute, UC Santa Cruz, and UC Berkeley are coupling the Lick Observatory’s 40-inch Nickel Telescope with a new pulse-detection system capable of finding laser beacons sent by alien civilizations.

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