Extraterrestrial

Academic teases announcement about discovery of alien life

By T.K. Randall
October 11, 2024

Image: The 64-M Parkes Radio Telescope
Credit: Stewart Duff, CSIRO / CC BY 3.0 (adapted) Various news outlets this week have picked up on the story that British academic Professor Simon Holland is claiming that an announcement about intelligent alien life is imminent.

Holland, who has previously produced documentaries for NASA-funded projects, claims to have received a tip-off from an insider with the Breakthrough Listen project - an alternative to SETI that aims to scour the cosmos for signs of extraterrestrial communications.

"We have found a non-human extraterrestrial intelligence in our galaxy, and people don't know about it," Holland told The Mirror. "They found the evidence of a non-human technological signature a few years ago, using the Parkes telescope in Australia."

Holland maintains that a second group of astronomers in China have also discovered the same evidence and that there is now some sort of race behind the scenes to publish the information.

"This is breaking news, as of yesterday, but the Chinese might be pipping them to the post, with their, FAST [Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope] program," he said.

"It's the largest telescope in the world since Arecibo."The target object is reportedly something known as "BLC-1", although it is unclear what it actually is.

"The signal, instead of being the giant buzz of everything in the universe that we hear through all radio telescopes, was a narrow electromagnetic spectrum," he said.

According to Holland, the discovery could be revealed within the next few weeks.

But could all this be a little too good to be true ?

It's possible that, while BLC-1 is indeed a genuine find, someone has perhaps overstated its significance or has jumped the gun with regard to whether or not it is of intelligent extraterrestrial origin.

Whatever the case, it will be interesting to see if such a discovery does get announced in the coming weeks.

Source: The Mirror

Tags: Alien, Extraterrestrial