New Claim in Search for Extraterrestrial Life: Evidence Soon to be Revealed
A British filmmaker claims that scientists believe an ancient radio signal originated from extraterrestrial intelligence.
A British filmmaker claims that scientists believe an ancient radio signal originated from extraterrestrial intelligence.
Simon Holland, a British filmmaker, asserts that signs of "non-human intelligence in our galaxy" have been detected, and proof will be made public within a month.
In an interview with the Daily Mail, Holland, who has worked on various documentaries for the NASA-funded asteroid-tracking project, discussed a five-hour-long burst of radio waves originally identified by Earth-based telescopes five years ago.
According to Holland, a team of Oxford University researchers is currently re-analyzing the signal as part of Breakthrough Listen, a $100 million initiative led by Yuri Milner, a Moscow-born Israeli physicist, dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Holland claimed, "They're looking for detail, hence the delay in publishing the news," adding that scientists are facing "technical hurdles" due to the radio signal's weakness.
In 2019, Australian telescopes detected a "strange signal" while observing the Proxima Centauri system, the closest star to our solar system, located approximately 4.2 light-years away.
The mysterious signal, dubbed Breakthrough Listen Candidate-1 (BLC-1), was initially believed to be from another planet, and scientists hoped it could be a sign of life.
In 2021, researchers at Berkeley later suggested it was likely a "false positive" caused by "two separate Earth-based transmitters interfering with each other" and "definitely not alien."
However, Holland, citing a source within Breakthrough Listen, claimed that new compelling evidence is mounting suggesting the signal could have actually originated from an advanced alien species.
This theory was supported by a "senior European Union radio telescope administrator," a former filmmaker-turned-science teacher. The Oxford team has confirmed to the Daily Mail that they were analyzing the signal but did not disclose why.
Holland stated, "We have found a non-human extraterrestrial intelligence in our galaxy, and people don't know about it." Holland, who describes himself as a "retired BBC film editor, expert factual department," has a YouTube show called 'Professor Simon' and believes that Breakthrough is now rushing to announce its findings to beat Chinese researchers, who reportedly discovered an alien signal in 2022 and may soon publicize their findings.