Hot on the heels of the release of unclassified UFO documents from the USAF Project Blue Book comes reports of astronomers receiving a live alien outburst from deep space.
A group of Australian astronomers at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne say they captured the world's first live alien radio burst.
Dr. Emily Petroff, lead scientist of the Swinburne team, said the radio waves capture may help astronomers understand galactic phenomena.
The radio burst, which lasted for less than a second, was detected by the Parkes radio telescope in New South Wales, Australia.
They had previously detected a burst in 2007 but the wave signals weren’t live but were discovered when going through reams of archived data.
"This makes the discovery so exciting,” Dr. Emily Petroff of the Swinburne team told media.
“Because we were able to catch the act, as opposed to existing data sets, we were able to reveal that the radiation produced by FRB (fast radio burst) was more than 20% circularly polarized and this suggests there were strong magnetic fields near the source."
Dr. Petroff said scientists have not discovered the radio waves’ exact origin yet but believes the source of the outburst to be cataclysmic in nature.
The radio waves are believed to have originated 5.5 billion light years away.
In a related story, possibly to Scully and Mulder of “The X-Files”, the USAF has had the findings of the U.S. government’s long dormant “Project Blue Book” dumped onto the Internet in all its unexpurgated glory.
The report which detailed some 12,600 reports of “flying saucers” and “unidentified flying objects” had been declassified for several years but was recently posted at “Project Blue Book.”
The reports stem from a team of scientific investigators headquartered out of Wright-Patterson Air Force base in Ohio.
Investigating alleged sightings worldwide from 1947 to 1969 the Project: Blue Book team failed to produce a substantial report that the phenomena were an Earthly (i.e. the Russians) or an extraterrestrial menace to national security.
Project: Blue Book was often ridiculed by fervent UFO-logists because sightings were often dismissed as a “swamp gas”, “weather balloons” or natural phenomena.
Of the 12,000 reported sightings, 700 remain unexplained.
POP FYI: The term “flying saucers” was first coined by businessman Kenneth Arnold in 1947 when he was flying his plane over Mt. Rainier in Washington. He reported that he had seen several glowing airborne discs resembling saucers.
