ET signal from space detected 04.29.2001?

http://www.chez.com/lesovnis/htm/etsignal.htm

ANNOUNCEMENT AND THE GREATEST CONFUSION:

The Swiss radio station "Premiere" communicated:

Sunday, April 29 2001 07:00:

"Détection d'un signal extraterrestre par un radiotélescope australien.
Ce
matin, aux environs de 6h30, heure suisse, nous avons reçu une
information
exceptionnelle de notre correspondante en Australie, Diane Care: un

signal
particulier en provenance de l'espace aurait été détecté par un
radiotélescope,
celui de l'Observatoire de Parkes. La question de l'existence d'une vie
extraterrestre se pose à nouveau."

"Detection of an extraterrestrial signal by an Australian radio
telescope. This
morning, around 06:30am, Swiss time, we received exceptional information
from our reporter in Australia, Diane Care: a particular signal coming
from
space has allegedly been detected by a radio telescope of the Parkes
Observatory. The question of the existence of an extraterrestrial life
is raised
again."

The announcement includes of course the ridiculous news item about the
shutdown of the so called "British UFO Bureau" which I have already
explained, which adds some more confusion to this affair.

At this time it seems impossible to get any valuable additinnal
information, except that the signal has been detected 10 days ago and
that the news leaked out of the
observatory. to the local reportin person of the Swiss radio channel.

Later the same day, an overexcited and totally confused astronomer has
been summoned
to "explain" the information on the same radio channel: he does not know
anything, he
ignores the nature of the signal and just explains that if it is a
natural radio signal there is nothing interesting about it, that stars
emit light and radio waves (did you know that!), and if it is an
artificial signal (which is what the news item is all about!) then it
would be evidence of an extra-terrestrial intelligence, but "this would
be like science fiction" etc.

The next day is just as confused but also very exciting: we learn that
the ET signal has been "smuggled out" or hacked out, from a
non-encrypted laboratory network
transmission, RSR says that the observatory sees nothing particular in
the signal but at the same time, the Observatory director says otherwise
in the on-line audio interview: he admits that unusual signals were
received in the last days. They are unusual, but not interpreted yet,
(which is totally normal, this might take ages). In the interview, the
Observatory spokesman seems quite embarrassed by the "no comment"
previously issued. Obviously somthing is happening: it would have been
possible to state that no particular signal was received...

Obviouly, radiotelescopes capture natural radio signals from space
continuously: this is their use! The announcement indicates that these
particular signal are artificial. It can be a joke, it can be completely
wrong, but at least we have learned the ridiculous manner in which such
an event, if true, would be presented in the media.

VERIFICATIONS:

At this time, I could positively verify that the information is really
from the "Premiere" Swiss radio Channel. The radio's web announcement is
on http://www.rsr.ch/ in the section "Premiere".

I also checked, of course, that the Parkes Observatory in Australia is
involved in the SETI project. It is.

THE RADIO ANNOUNCEMENTS:

The text corresponding to the radio announcements as they are published
at this time on the web site of the Radio Suisse-Romande "Premiere"
radio station, they have
devoted a special news page to this event:

The audio messages are capital: they sometimes totally contradict the
meaning of the
text. You need to listen to these audio track to get the real "taste" of
the event.