Did NASA Just Discover Intelligent Alien Civilization 1,500 Light Years From Earth?

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NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has found evidence of a technologically advanced civilization around a distant star in the Milky Way galaxy.

The star, known as KIC 8462852, is located approximately 1,500 light years from Earth. Spotted by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope in 2009, the star has a strange and bizarre light profile, experiencing large changes and dips in brightness. Scientists say such unusual dimming pattern could be an indicator of intelligent alien life or the presence of alien “megastructures”.

Tabetha Boyajian, a postdoctoral researcher at Yale University, told The Atlantic, We’d never seen anything like this star. It was really weird. We thought it might be bad data or movement on the spacecraft, but everything checked out.”

In September, Boyajian published a research paper titled Planet Hunters X. KIC 8462852 – Where’s the flux?, describing the star’s bizarre light pattern and the surrounding megastructures. According to Boyajian’s observations, the “dipping activity” of the star can last for between five and 80 days; two major dips take place nearly every 750 days.

The unusual celestial body lies between the constellations Cygnus and Lyra, invisible to the naked eye. Several years ago, the star was flagged as “bizarre”, “interesting”, and a “giant transit” by members of Planet Hunters, a group of ‘citizen scientists’ tasked with analysing the data from the 150,000 stars Kepler was watching. The pattern of light suggests a large mass of matter is circling the star. KIC 8462852 is a mature star that seemed to have a large mess of objects orbiting it. The star is a mature F-type star, approximately 1.5 times the size of Sun. Circumstellar disks are usually found around young stars.

Jason Wright, an astronomer from Pennsylvania State University, is set to publish an alternative interpretation of the light pattern. Wright and his co-authors say the unusual star’s light pattern is consistent with a “swarm of megastructures”, perhaps stellar-light collectors, technology designed to catch energy from the star.

“When [Boyajian] showed me the data, I was fascinated by how crazy it looked. Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider, but this looked like something you would expect an alien civilization to build,” he told The Atlantic.

Boyajian and Wright have teamed up with Andrew Siemion, the Director of the SETI Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley; they want to point a radio dish at the star to look for wavelengths associated with technological civilizations, and to see whether the system is generating any artificial radio signals that could indicate the presence of “intelligent creatures”. The first observations could be ready to take place as early as January, with follow-up observations potentially coming even quicker.

“Whether there are aliens constructing huge megastructures to meet their power needs at KIC 8462852, or — overwhelmingly more likely — it’s a more natural scenario, this is a pretty weird and interesting star. And it’s definitely worth investigating further,” Phil Plait, an astronomer, wrote in Slate.


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8 COMMENTS

  1. You are anonymous. Please, do something. Hack into whatever, and show the public that extraterrestrial life is real. Show the government involvement, and bring down this fucked up cover up. Stop giving us little posts like this, people are blind and ignorant, and they need to know about everything. Anonymous, you can do this, why don’t you?

    • Jesus Christ put your tinfoil hat away please. This is why these cases are left to the professionals and not you tinfoil bandits. All you can do is speculate without evidence or even a morsel of common sense cause you’re so blinded by your own thoughts.

  2. Evidence is a word that should not be used in this article. Sorry. It’s one theory that sounds like a bit of fun. That’s it.

    • Do you think its totally implausible that there could be life and colonised planets out there other than planet earth? If so, thats very close-minded. I mean we’re here aren’t we?

    • Lol evidence is perfectly fine to be used. The fluxuations in luminosity are evidence to massive bodies interfering with a consistent Luminosity vs Temp graph. Do I think this is just a little bit of fun being poked? Absolutely……A MESSAGE TO EVERYONE reading this article. The actual paper is published in the cornell university library. You cam download the whole thing and read it here…..http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.03622
      Literally in the fucking summary it says that the light patterns are consistent with the passage of a family of exocomets from a recent break up. Do I believe we are alone in the universe? No, it would be an awful waste of space. Just have to keep looking

  3. Uhm, NASA IS A C.G.and funnel for the military. L I E S yes, lies is what NASA does. Seriously look into the flat earth and prove its crazy. It is NOT. You will laugh until you find out a few simple examples. Good hunting.

  4. Use your heads ppl if we can live on a planet umm obviously there could be others you fools…lol what ya think we are special or something…if another planet with life was found I would go because all you non believers and idiots out there..lol

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