I figured it would be interesting to get Giovanni Judica-Cordiglia on the show and ask him directly. (For those of you who don't know, this is our show about people who've lived through extreme events). Some sceptics believe the brothers forged their recordings, while others say their claims are credible, and point to Russia's longstanding history of cover-ups as validation.Įither way, when I first read about this story I became so intrigued I decided to make it the focus of an episode of Extremes. I first read a sceptical account of the brothers' claims on a Quora thread, only to later find an online version of a 1965 Reader's Digest article which presented their story as indisputable fact. It's a story that's been the subject of debate ever since. To Achille and Giovanni, this seemed to point to one thing: that the Soviets were launching people into space, losing them, and covering up their accidents. The other apparently manned (and disastrous) missions overheard by the brothers were never mentioned. Through all of this, the Soviet Union announced only one successful manned mission, which was that of Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961. "Conditions growing worse, why don't you answer? We are going slower… the world will never know about us."
This particularly haunting message was intercepted by the brothers on May 17, 1961, without any indication from whom it came: They later recorded a human heartbeat, transmitted as biometric data, and then later a mysterious broadcast in Russian, begging for help.
Russian received radio signal from space series#
Why would an unmanned craft transmit a distress signal?"įor the brothers, this was the first in a series of mysterious mayday calls intercepted from space. We had no proof, but it was the only theory that seemed to fit. It’s more likely the director is just trying to keep people grounded in their thinking."Maybe the Soviets had managed to launch a cosmonaut into orbit, but they’d lost them into space. The director of Breakthrough Initiatives stated that we shouldn’t get too worked up in solidified beliefs concerning the signal because it could be Earth-based but admitted there was no evidence for that. There is no evidence to give any credibility to this theoretical elaboration in any case. But, it’s also possible they have abandoned the planet altogether and are void born in their native solar system somehow. If the signal originated from the planet, perhaps lifeforms have evolved to sustain insane levels of radiation? Or, more likely, the civilization would be under the planet’s surface. With the planet’s surface all but inhabitable to our own understanding of sentient life. Proxima b, one of the planets in its solar system, is habitable, though it suffers intense radiation. The signal originated from the sun closest to our own Proxima Centauri, which is about 4.2 lightyears from Earth in our backyard. “The narrow beam of radio waves was picked up during 30 hours of observations by the Parkes telescope in Australia in April and May last year… Analysis of the beam has been underway for some time, and scientists have yet to identify a terrestrial culprit such as ground-based equipment or a passing satellite,” – The Guardian.Īre we unable to communicate back because we just don’t understand? Well, many decades later, the scientists at the Breakthrough Listen Project have yet again received an anomalous radio signal that could be of alien origin. However, what is factual is that it is the greatest mainstream source of evidence giving credibility to the existence of intelligent alien life in the universe. To sum up why it was such a big deal in normal people talk, SETI astronomers had already predicted what radio signals from aliens might look like, and the Wow Signal matched what they’d predicted quite well.Įfforts were made to return communication, but nothing ever came of it, and some consider the event to be more about publicity than science. Though, that may seem pretty cryptic since we are not space radio signal researchers.
The astronomer who analyzed it was so blown away by it that he wrote “Wow” in big red letters across it. The Wow Signal didn’t last very long, maxing out at a mere 72 seconds, but the printout of the signal defied belief.
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