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...Ozma used the radio telescope at Green Bank, W. Va., in an attempt to pick up signals from nearby stars, they detected regular pulses that were later presumed to be emanating from a secret U.S. radar experiment. In the mid-1960s, a Russian astronomer detected varying signals from a mysteri ous radio source; Tass breathlessly reported that the signals were a beacon from a supercivilization. The source was later identified as a distant, starlike quasar. When Cambridge Astronomer Anthony Hewish and his assistant Jocelyn Bell in 1967 recorded blips coming from space at precise intervals, they playfully named the sources...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Is There Life on Mars | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

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