Scientists have yet to rule out human radio interference as the signals’ source (alien)

Anynewslk | Chinese scientists say the country’s giant “Sky Eye” telescope may have picked up radio signals of an alien civilization. Researchers with Beijing Normal University found “several cases of possible technological traces and extraterrestrial civilizations from outside the earth,” according to a report published Tuesday in Science and Technology Daily, the official newspaper of the Ministry of Science and Technology.

The signals were discovered by China’s 500-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST,). The only giant, single-dish, radio telescope in the world. According to the publication, it is colloquially known as “Sky Eye.”

Cosmologist Zhang Tongjie, once dubbed “China’s top alien hunter,” said FAST located “several narrow-band electromagnetic signals different from the past,” the newspaper reported.

 

As of September 2020, one of the telescope’s main functions has been to search for extraterrestrial life. Beijing Normal University is working alongside scientists from University of California, Berkeley, on the program.

To date, those researchers have identified two sets of signs from 2019 when processing data in 2022. And one set of signals this year, Zhang told Science and Technology Daily.