Yesterday , Science and Technology Daily , a nation - back medium outlet in China , published what could have been an exciting patch of tidings : researcher recorded radio signals that face like evidence of extraterrestrial technology . Rogue blips from an advanced exotic civilization made their style to Earth ? Well , probably not , because the kink here is n’t that we may have found aliens ; it ’s that Science and Technology Daily quickly force the story from its website , Bloomberg reported .
The account observation came from the Five - hundred - meter Aperture Spherical Telescope ( FAST ) , dub Sky Eye , in China , according to the clause from Science and Technology Daily , which wasre - upload on WeChat . The telescope is a 500 - meter ( 1,640 - foot ) dish , thelargestradio telescope in the world .
The article , via Google Translate , reads :

The apparent signals were captured by the FAST radio telescope in China.Photo: STR/AFP (Getty Images)
A few days ago , Professor Zhang Tongjie , chief scientist of the China Extraterrestrial Civilization Research Group of the Department of Astronomy and Extraterrestrial Civilization Research Group of Beijing Normal University , let out that his team used the “ Chinese Sky Eye ” to notice several cases of possible technical trace and extraterrestrial civilizations from outside the earth … Zhang Tongjie tell that these are several narrow - stripe electromagnetic signals dissimilar from the past , and the team is presently working on further investigating .
… in 2020 , the squad break two groups of suspicious signal of extraterrestrial civilisation during the datum processing of the “ China Sky Eye ” 2019 synchronal sky survey observations . In 2022 , the squad determine another suspicious signal from exoplanet objective watching data .
“ The possibility that the suspicious signaling is some kind of radio set interference is also very high , and it needs to be further confirmed and ruled out . This may be a long process . ” Zhang Tongjie said …

Indeed , whatever the signals were ( and , for now , we have no entropy about them ) , it ’s most probable that they follow from a born phenomenon or interference from human technology . That tell , the search for extraterrestrial intelligence ( SETI ) is an important one , which is why the scientist should share what data they have , so that the larger enquiry community can investigate these presuppose “ candidate signals ” fully .
This would n’t be the first prison term astronomers have plunk up radio signal that they could n’t immediately explain . Amysterious outburstfrom Proxima Centauri was record in 2019 by researchers in theBreakthrough Listen projection . The signal hold out 60 minutes and was pick up by a telescope at the CSIRO Parkes Observatory in Australia . Two year by and by , astronomers decide the signal was likely give off from Earth in a way that fooled the telescope . In 2018 , Canadian researchers catch afast - radio burstthat was probably an emission from a sure variety of neutron star . A rogue signaling in 2015 was even trace back toa microwave oven .
Unlike the recentCongressional listening on UFOs , SETI is a strict scientific endeavor that trust on gauze-like datum collecting , peer review , and heap dose of disbelief . It ’s not clear why this recent report from China was share and then blue-pencil , but we look forward to learning more about these patent signal and what might have get them .

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