On the look out for intelligent signals (Image: Adam Hart-Davis/SPL)
Alien invasions, four-armed ETs and the cosmic lottery – New Scientist talks to the founder of Project Ozma and the inspiration for the modern search for extraterrestrial life.
What gave you the inspiration to set up Project Ozma?
In 1957 I was studying the Pleiades star cluster at Harvard University’s radio observatory. On one occasion we saw an added feature in the data. It turned out to be an amateur radio enthusiast near the observatory, but at the time I thought we had detected clear evidence of another civilisation. You feel…
