Roz47, this is so exciting! I will look for this on other news outlets. What do you bet that shortly they will say it was a mistake or something? But the news has leaked out now.
This is just amazing, thanks for posting this Roz. Flagged (and starred if I knew how.)

Well, so much for that... The link at KTVU-TV displayed this:

Article Not Available
The story you are trying to view is no longer available through this Web site.

And the media blackout begins?

Fortunately, I have a copy of the article and we do here at ATS, too. The OP posted the entire article, so you didn't miss anything but verification, which I can tell you I saw with my own two eyes.

Whoa wait a second, wasn't there a member on here a few days ago that said he picked up a single?

Originally posted by MrAndy
Whoa wait a second, wasn't there a member on here a few days ago that said he picked up a single?

That's a great point. Well, guess I better clean up the kitchen...You think they prefer Gin or Vodka?

The first question is "how to answer it?" I think the first question (after it's determined to be valid) should be "can we answer it," followed immediately by "should we answer it?" I'm thinking of those deep sea fish with a little dangling light out in front of their huge, tooth-filled mouths.

[edit on 16-1-2008 by Nohup]

Wow, total blackout on this one. Even the Arecibo telescope homepage isn't mentioning it. Hope there is more to this story. I'll email KTVU and ask why they pulled the story...

The article on KTVU-TV is definitely gone. I even searched the site for 'SETI' and 'Arecibo' with no relevant results.

I'm glad Earthfiles grabbed this before it was taken down. Either it was a joke, or it is now being covered up. You have to wonder though, why was only one TV station privy to such information?

hmmm, why do i get the sinking feeling that we wont hear anything more about this event and that if asked they will just deny that it ever happend.

Seth Shostak will make sure of that!!!

White House phone rings:

"Yeah, this is G Dubya."

"George, we gotta problem."

"What's that?"

"Well it seems one of our secret little friends on the far side of the galaxy made a boo boo."

"Oh, what?"

"Well they accidentally transmitted a full cycle beam instead of the normal confined one, and now the turkeys down in Puerto Rico are picken em up on the scope. And they've got some private SETI members seeing things as well. We got a TV station too that's published the story. This doesn't look good."

...long silence...

"Alright Dick, here's what we'll do... Kill the station report citing national security, and clean up the net. As to the private SETI members, if they won't give up their boxes, label them as enemy combatants. Guatanamo, if you have to, got it?"

"Sir, but intelligence reports..."

"I don't give a damn about intelligence reports, you know that! Now go get er dun."

Click.

true american that was the funniest thing iv read all day thank you for that . but like i said we wont hear any more about this and that my friends is realy very sad.