I found this while searching around, and I though it was pretty interesting due mainly to the fact that I had never heard of this incident. Whether fake or not, the message is something that we should all learn to follow. Enjoy....
"At 5:10pm on November 26th, 1977, the audio portion of a news broadcast was interrupted by a mysterious voice. The speaker identified himself as Vrillon (or perhaps it was Gillon, Gramaha, or Bramaha - the transmission contained static and was unclear). He claimed to represent the Ashtar Galactic Command and he had a message for humanity.Vrillon’s 5-minute message contained a plea for earthlings to lay down their weapons and live in peace with eachother and the environment, or else face certain doom. He encouraged people to seek inner truth so they could evolve spiritually. He also acknowledged that earth was being observed and visited by extraterrestrials, saying, “We have watched you growing for many years as you too have watched our lights in your skies. You know now that we are here, and that there are more beings on and around your Earth than your scientists admit.”
Vrillon’s message prompted thousands of worried calls to local television stations. According to a news report, police were called out to calm down frightened listeners, and the television network broadcasted messages of reassurance every half hour until the situation had eased.
Within days, the broadcasting authorities had released an official explanation: The transmission was a hoax carried out by students using inexpensive equipment and a car battery. Vrillon’s reference to new age terminology, such as the Age of Aquarius, also evoked general skepticism among some listeners and investigators.
On the other hand, others were reluctant to discount the transmission as a youthful prank. No one ever came forward to claim responsibility for the hijacking. The authorities acknowledged that this had never happened before in Great Britain. Independent experts concluded that five transmitters would have needed to be hijacked simultaneously to broadcast the message to such a wide audience - an incredibly complex feat to achieve in those days. A mandatory monitoring system was in place, but network engineers in two different locations failed to catch the interruption in the signal. There was also the hint of a cover-up, because the authorities would not release a tape of the full message to the public or the press (only the first 30 seconds of the message were released).
UFO contactees, starseeds, and new age practitioners would probably have recognized Vrillon’s credentials. The Ashtar Command is an actual international - and, to believers, intergalactic - organization. Its objective is consistent with Vrillon’s message of peace and extraterrestrial assistance as we evolve spiritually.
Vrillon disappeared after that day and hard evidence has not materialized. A legitimate extraterrestrial message or a technically clever hoax, the broadcast hijacking incident remains a mystery to ufologists 30 years later."
Link- http://mysteriousuniverse.org/?p=1572

oh wow thats pretty cool! i dont know why someone would hijack a radio station to say something like that though. ive never heard of this before, thats a really interesting article. good find!

Here is the transmission

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thfL9hZW3uM

double post dammit

I think it is BS when a supposed alien mentions spirituality.


Edit to add:

You can tell its fake when it has that cheap sound effect humming sound in the background and also the lines


THIS IS THE VOICE OF.....( INSERT NAME)


Because it just reminded me of captain Scarlet

THIS IS THE VOICE OF THE MYSTERONS

You'd think such "superior beings" would be able to send a better signal. Or do it on a wider scale than some tiny station.

Obvious hoax.

Thats so funny and so obviously a fake. Someone just hacked into the station. Thats how an alien would sound from a b movie in the 50's. Their name always begin with a Z or V, from the planet V or Z lol. Meaningful message though

Yeah, whoever did it obviously had good intentions and it was more than just mischief to them.

Hmmmmm...that alien "voice" sounds awfully human.

Oh yeah, somebody watched The Mysterians alright!

Nice message...don't think we've moved into that "Age of Aquarius" quite yet though.

Well certainly one of the better student pranks I've come accross. I'd certainly buy them a pint.

Is the next age the 'Age of Aquarius' or the 'Age of Aries'? I think the 'Age of Aquarius' came with the flood; it was water.

ha ha! even though it's a fake it's pretty awesome!

Yeah it had an english accent too lol ......I agree tho it was at least a good message

This sounds a lot like a case that I was asking about over at Sightings part of Unexplained Discussion. The case I was wondering about is very similar maybe not the same one but very similar. Don't know if they are the same though. But anyway, the one I was asking about involved some guy or alien calling in to some program and he said he was calling from the Bermuda Triangle and he interrupted some program. I think the program he interupted was a call in type. It was featured on the program called In Search of back in the 70s or early 80s. Does this ring any bells as to sounding familiar? The program this guy called in on had something to do with the Bermuda Triangle I think. He had some kind of message but can't remember what.

I was there when it happened sitting in an apartment on Clapham Common, London that Saturday afternoon. I remember it vividly..

Here's some actual background on what went on....

The transmission that was interupted was Britain's then , only commercial channel. in 1977, apart from the Reading area which had cable, there were only 3 channels on air. Those were BBC1, BBC2 and ITV. The commercial station, ITV, was split into regional companies each showing , often radically different content. There were a few core programmes that were transmitted at the same on all channels, the News being one of them. This meant that, in some areas of the country, one could pick up more than one ITV channel. In the Clapham area one could tune into both Thames, the London version of ITV, and Southern, which covered the South Coast. I mention this because it has a meaningful relevance and ramifications, on what actually happened...

The interuption was chiefly on the Southern TV channel but those in London who could pick up both also had their transmission broken into and heard the messaage. AFAIK, people living North of the River hadn't a clue what had gone on. This means that rather than stemming from a particualr source , ie a station, it had to have been from outside. Otherwise those North of the river in London, watching Thames TV, would have seen and heard the message as well, they didn't.

Given that, the transmission could not have been merely a prank. Had it interupted both Thames TV and Southern TV's output yes it might well have been. What actually happened was a signal was transmitted from an outside source, that covered and broke into any ITV transmission in an area covering much of South London, Kent, Surrey, Hampshire, Berkshire. To do this, a TV engineer told me, that it would require a huge power source.

When it was inverstigated further the Police later cloamed to the people asking about the incident that it was * A student prank, pulled by students in the Southampton area*... and that * Not seeking to give them any more publicity they had been charged with offesnes under the boradcasting act, had pleaded guilty and been sentenced with as little publicity as possible*... Inversitgors checked the court records for the whole area and found nothing. There never were any students charged under the broadcasting act in Southern England for that incident.

What most people do not know is that. This was not a lone incident and another one happeend that was totally hushed up at the time involving a Radio show in London. I can now reveal this as i heard the tape of the incident that an engineer from the company, smuggled out. it also happened around the same time and affected London.

The Radio channel it happeend to was LBC, the London Broadcasting Company, during a phone in. The DJ involved was one of their *proto* shock jocks, a guy who use to really come across at often, arrogant in his treatment of callers. His Name was Brian something, i apologise i can't remember his surname as it is similar to that of another well known Radio journalist. I am sure someone else will remember the guy and furnish the surname.


Anyway, he was chatting away about life in general when a guy calls and starts intoning exactly the same sort of message as that on the TV interuption. The DJ quickly tires of this and cuts him off. he goes to another phone and.... same voice, with the same message continuing... The engineer told us that all 6 lines into the station were blocked with the guys voice repeating the message and the show was taken off the air before any of it was actually transmitted as *Open mic* shows often had a a delay built into them to make sure the content wasn't libellous, obscene etc... The enginer had copied the 2 track that was kept onto cassette it was that we heard. He also swore blind that it was no joke and that the station had had a serious high level enquiry about what happened and had been assured that it was not a prank by their own staff.

Now at this juncture let me say this. Although the voice on the Radio incident, claimed to be talking from an orbiting space craft, i do not simply believe that at all. To me, becasue of my connections with music technology it sounded like someone using either a vocoder, or a harmoniser on their voice. I beleive , but am not totally sure that the Eventide Harmoniser had appeared by then. That being said they were hideously expensive and there probably werenlt more than a dozen in this country in total. If you were to track down just h who did own one you might well find who it was who pulled this little jape.

On the other hand, several TV engineers have said, off the record, that the pwer needed to achieve the break into the TV tranmission was that of a small substation to cover the 100s of square miles that were affected. The idea it was some students in some little van who did it by tappng into a transmitter in some field, is wholly fallacious. It would have needed several trucks synchronised to the second to have achieved this. It also worth remembering that the TV station affected had no idea it was happening, as their own monitors told them all was well it was only when they receieved phone calls from viewers they became aware of what was happening, or so they claim. That means that the prank was some technical feat and probably way out of the capabilities of a few students with a couple of *radio ham* sets.

What these incidents were in actual fact, my mind is still open. Personally, i would tend to go with the diea of some Goverenment Black OP to test out how people would react to such things. The voice to me, sound slike a human voice using either, as already stated, a harmoniser or vocoder.

That being said, do not fall for any old flannel about *Student Pranks*, because that, i know it most defintiely wasn't and it wasn't the engineers from either the TV company or the Radio station who pulled the *stunt* , either.


I am also sorry that i cannot give the name of the person who obtained the tape of the Radio incident, as that is confidential and i was only given access to it as a "trusted researcher* into the paranomral asre UFOs. I did, however, meet the engineer who smuggled the tape out and he did indeed work as an engineer for LBC at the time of the incident.


One further thing, having viewed the link in the original post. The TV set where i was watching it did not display the TV pictures over the transmission. The screen was covered in snow and the picture was lost. I have spoken to many others, who also said, that their tv picture turned to just static snow during the transmission.

The News story at the end of the transmission is totally innacurate. I saw and heard the message in Clapham Common in London which is miles from the area they claim was affected in a completely different county. The message was transmitted across a wider area than claimed in the news report including over part of the area covered by Thames TV as well as Southern TV.

the concept of Ashtar is older than we think...

The word 'Ashtar' is the name of a Babylonian god

If you've ever read 'The Mothman Prophecies' you will know that Ashtar was one such 'entity' who had many contactees during the 1960's. Actually Ashtar was also linked to some high profile UFO sighting cases.

http://ashtar.galactic2.net/

I can see this being a bit of propaganda for the various cults that have sprung up around Ashtar, but it won't be the work of young people. The astrological component isn't part of popular culture in recent UFO lore.

LOL, I wonder why the 'message' wasn't broadcast globally, and where Vrillon and the Ashtar Galactic Command have been since 77?... Hoax... IMO

Interesting Bod. mmmh... I'd like to give this my professional judgment.
After serious consideration... I think....LMAO!!! PLEASE...no more

Just remembered the name of the talk DJ who's show was interupted. It was Brian Hayes, anyone who remembers the guy can imagine what his reaction was, he was not amused at all...

With respect, giggling like a bunch of schoolkids at the content of the message is missing the point completely.

Let me try to t put this into context for Americans. Imagine in the 70s sitting down to watch Prime Time TV on a Saturday evening and much of NY State and half of New York city's transmission of NBC is interupted by a signal that the TV station isn't even aware of. Forget what the message was, just try to get your heads round what it would take to do something like that in the 70s. That is the magnitude of this incident, not the message, merely that someone actually managed to do it...

C'mon Firemoon,

you always get pirates. link
And they will alway find the ways and means. Creative bunch..

Vrillion sounds at any given minute, like he's going to crack up laughing. Very old skool 'Hitchhiker's guide to galaxy'with a fat 70's synth underneath..
Beside, Age of Aquarius is man-made hippy concept..

Here is an interesting posting that I stole from another forum that has some related information at it. It is not my words it is a cut and paste and mentions related info:

There have been many strange, seemingly intelligent signals from outer space which have reached Earth since the dawn of radio communications, although scientists have always explained away these space oddities from the cosmos, as radio static from the stars.
Yet scientists MUST have hopes, as they have attached to several deep space probes, gold and platinum plaques which carry diagrams of the human species and messages of goodwill.
Radio messages have been transmitted from Earth to any extra- terrestrial civilizations that might be listening from the depths of space.
One such signal, was transmitted in 1974 from the enormous ARECIBO radio telescope which is 1000ft in diameter and is built into a natural convex hollow of the terrain in Puerto Rico. It appeared in the 1997- Jodie Foster film - "Contact".
(The Arecibo telescope):
http://www.thisisthelife.com/en/arecibo-observatory.htm

The message from the Arecibo telescope was aimed at the Hercules cluster of stars which lie 24,000 light years away, (don't hold your breath for a reply [;D] )

After the Sun, planet earth is the most powerful radio source in the solar system, and even medium wave signals can propagate radio waves in a vertical direction across interstellar space.

THREE YEARS AFTER THE ARECIBO BROADCAST:

. . . On 26th November 1977 - at 5.12pm, an extremely powerful signal of unknown origin, broke through on the radio AND TV wavebands of Southern England. The signal seemed to come through the upper layers of the Ionosphere, from space, and focused on the counties of Hampshire, Wiltshire, West Sussex and Surrey (UK).
The intensity of the signal was such, that it over heated the aerials that received it - making them useless thereafter.
The powerful signal swamped out Southern TV's transmission of the news that evening. The message lasted 5 and a half minutes.

The authorities of the time, denounced the broadcast as a student prank - Engineers RULED OUT a prank, as the signal strength had been one of the order of gigawatts, and even interfered with NATO's radio network.

Questions were asked in the house of Lords - but ended in a type of pantomime.
Gradually, the whole incident was forgotten about.

It would seem, that no one even considered the message to be real - giving us a warning from our interstellar neighbours, who are perhaps becoming concerned at our suicidal destruction of the environment and our preoccupation with war and violence.

If it was a genuine message - it has fallen on deaf ears - perhaps it is now too late to heed the warning!

This site gives a transcript of the message to Earth- 1977
http://ufos.about.com/od/ufofolkloremythlegend/a/voice2.htm

Now, if this signal was simultaneously broadcasted on every radio and tv station through-out the world; then, it might be interesting.

There are more stars(star systems) in the universe than there are grains of sand on all of Earth's beaches combined.

The aliens,if they exist,don't care about us. They've been happy to sit back and watch us kill each other for thousands of years.

Not bad; I've never seen or heard of this incident before. Quite an "lol" situation if you ask me.

I have a hard time looking at videos and listening to them as my computer has been going downhill the last few months. It has gradually been getting worse and I think I need more rem or ram I can't remember that term. I can navigate at sites but some sites hang me up and this will often happen if I go to you tubes and the like so soon my computer will be getting fixed. I have tried everything. No quick fix I guess.

It was before the Hitchikers guide, and yes i remember cracking up laughing hearing the voice at the time.. However, it remains that someone managed to overide the TV transmission of one, of only 3 channels. Let me give you some idea of the area covered. by Road from Winchester, which is mentioned in the News report and Clapham Common in London is 68.79 miles . Ok lets say that 60 miles as the crow flies... Winchester to reading is some 35 miles by Road so lets say 30 miles... Reading to Clapham common is 40 miles by road so lets say 35 as the crow flies... Now lets say there was an area, square in shape and a conservative value for the length of each side is 35 miles.. that is an area of 1225 sqaure miles where someone , for a *prank* blocked and interupted the transmission. The truth is, the area involved was considerably larger... that is some prank, even you would have to admit, given that, there would be several transmitters covering the area due to the curvature of the earth and the terrain.

I don't doubt the severity of the technology involved in this case, but the voice seems to comical for it to make any sense or be real. While a far away race who has the ability to tune in and give speeches on our airwaves would probably have the capacity to learn and understand English, I just don't know about the authenticity.

Only just though-
Its original form, a radio comedy, Hitchhikers was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978: a radio show praised for it special effects, seen as the radio show equivalent of Sgt Peppers.
Aside from that.. the important question, or the only concern to the UM posters is; is this a real extra-terrestrial message?
Answer- No... or highly highly highly probably NOT.

Ignore the content of the message and think of it this way. If it wasn't merely a *Black Op* to guage the publics reaction but put onto send a message directly to a government. In the 1970s before the rise of console games etc where did most people get their niformation from? The newspapers and primarily the TV news. When was the biggest battle for TV viewing figures. Early Saturday evening.

Ok so you project a comical message which won;t scare 99% of the populatuion who hear it because, by it's very delivery and nature, it sounds likea joke? That fair enough? What is the one language that dominated the airwaves at that time? The language broadcast allover the world? English.. So, send the message in English..

Futhermore split the nation that gave us that language's capital into to two halves, those that do hear it and those that don't. Just an added little *showbiz* content to show the powers that be just how much you can cnotrol on both a macro and micro level.

You see the reasoning? The only people it would truly upset are those that think they have complete and utter contorl over what is being broadcast. The public at large, by dint of the very nature of the transmission, think .. oh that must be a joke... The powers that be, however, see it in a wholly different light. That is, job done those that matter are now aware of what your capabilities are, the public at large, is really none the wiser...

I'm not saying that is the answer, but it is one worth considering, given that, no-one ever owned up to pullnig the stunt and the governemnt and police never managed tot rack down the culprits.

It was, in effect, what we now call a classic case of *shock and awe tactics* , Not , aimed at the public, as they are by the West in places like Iraq, but at the government of the world's chief broadcasting nation. It might well have been the Russians, but so far no-noe over there has stood up and said.,. Aha we did that,.... afterall , with the collapse of the USSR there would be no reason to lie about it would there, anymore?

All hail Vrillon. Bringer of the great message for peace

a way to get the TV station ratings up. a desperate attempt it was.

I think it's pretty interesting, even though it's most likely a fake, and just a signal hijacking from a human. If aliens really wanted to get some sort of message out, they would probably hijack every station in the world if that were the case.

Also, I'm the one who uploaded that video to YouTube in the first place, too.