By Tim Binnall
A revealing report out of China indicates that the country's massive 'alien-hunting' telescope has detected curious signals which may have come from extraterrestrials. The remarkable development was disclosed in an article published earlier this week by the state-run news outlet Science and Technology Daily. The piece details the work of scientists from the China Extraterrestrial Civilization Research Group, which emanates out of Beijing Normal University, as they look for possible signs of alien life using the enormous five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, also known as FAST. Amazingly, the article states that the researchers have detected "several cases of possible technological traces and extraterrestrial civilizations from outside the Earth."
Specifically, lead researcher Zhang Tongjie indicated that the team have spotted "several narrow-band electromagnetic signals different from the past" which they are currently investigating. He went on to explain that, in 2020, they uncovered "two groups of suspicious signals" while poring over the result of a 2019 'sky survey' performed by FAST and, this year, they noticed another oddity that appeared in "exoplanet target observation data." While the three detections are undoubtedly quite tantalizing, Tongjie seemingly tried to temper expectations that they could have come from extraterrestrials.
"The possibility that the suspicious signal is some kind of radio interference is also very high," the cosmologist said, "and it needs to be further confirmed and ruled out. This may be a long process." Although Tongjie expressed a fairly cautious attitude about the potentially paradigm-shifting discoveries, the scientist who oversees operations at FAST had a far more fantastic assessment. Peng Bo boldly declared to the newspaper that the signals are "likely" to have come from extraterrestrials, "but we have not yet had time to identify them." Considering that the telescope has already spotted multiple anomalies in just a few years of operation, if these particular signals don't turn out to be alien, it's a safe bet that the site will detect even more promising oddities going forward.