And he sent it along to some of the other researchers in the group.īRUMFIEL: To see if anyone wanted to take a closer look. SMITH: Danny said it was really interesting. So Smith showed it to his boss, Danny Price. SMITH: You look by hand through those 8,000 - we call them events.īRUMFIEL: Until he found a signal that looked real.īRUMFIEL: It seemed like it ticked all the boxes of an extraterrestrial transmission. I was listening to music.īRUMFIEL: While he looked at 8,000 of the most promising signals. SHANE SMITH: I was in the basement of my house on my computer eight hours a day looking at data. Except in the summer of 2020, everyone was in pandemic lockdown. Those signals went to Shane Smith, an undergraduate intern with the University of California, Berkeley.
GEOFF BRUMFIEL, BYLINE: The telescope was in Australia, a big dish that collected millions of potential signals.
A couple years ago, a telescope here on Earth picked up a radio signal that seemed to be coming from a nearby star.
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