South African radio telescope detects alien signal?

**Skeptical**

A group of astronomy students, using a radio telescope at a South African university, believe they may have stumbled across an alien radio signal. Here's a link:

http://www.witness.co.za/?showcontent&global[_id]=11385

I think it would be fairly easy to confirm this by turning other radio telescopes involved in SETI to scan the same patch of sky. At this point, I don't hold out a lot of hope - the galaxy is naturally a pretty noisy place. It may be this team is listening to signals generated by a pulsar or even a black hole.

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HopoUK · Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 7:38 am Post subject:

Well looking at the graph in this homepage report, I'm guessing that the signal lasted for about a half hour:

I agree that SETI should become invovled, but I'm starting to believe more and more that the people running that program don't believe that alien life exists. That they are there for disinformation purposes. I don't even think that we will get a comment from them about the signal.

I think that places like South Africa are more open minded about projects like this, so if we do find something of significance, it will come from sources like this.