The Internet is abuzz with the cover news that Formosan scientists have notice possible technological signal of extraterrestrials using thelargest radio scope in the world , the Five - hundred - meter Aperture Spherical radio receiver Telescope , otherwise know as FAST .
Chinese media outlets , include state news program outlet Global Times , Yicai Global , andScience and Technology Daily , have report the announcement the China Extraterrestrial Civilization Research Group of Beijing Normal University has discover signals that they believed to be contrived in inception .
The signal are claimed to have first been watch over in 2019 but only derive to Inner Light when the data was processed in 2020 . This was keep up by another signaling from a targeted exoplanet this year . However , the datum has not been made public .
tight , or " Sky Eye " , is the cosmos ’s most sensitive radio telescope and is designed to look deep into the universe . It has equipment designed to look for extraterrestrial sign , and began the official lookup in 2020 . The main function is to screen out useful narrow - banding nominee signals from the vast amount of electromagnetic signal of the telescope , excluding both celestial and man - made sign .
While some already have jumped on the alien bandwagon , the research worker themselves are the first to inflect it down . There is a high fortune that what they are see was interference from Earthly - reverberate wireless wafture .
“ The suspicious signal may also be some form of radio encumbrance , which needs to be further reassert or ruled out . This may be a long process , ” Professor Zhang Tongjie , chief scientist at the Extraterrestrial Civilization Research Group tell Yicai Global .
" ' China Sky Eye ' will recapitulate the observation of suspicious signal that have been key out to further name and detect young signals , " Prof. Zhang say , reportsScience and Technology Daily .
" We look forrard to ' China Sky Eye ' being the first to discover and substantiate the being of extraterrestrial civilizations . "
However , the datum will need to be further analyzed because , as always , extraordinary claims involve extraordinary grounds .
