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From: Stig Agermose <Stig_Agermose@online.pol.dk>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 02:51:59 +0200
Fwd Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 07:20:39 -0500
Subject: SETI Signals At 1450MHZ From EQ PEGASI?


I got on the track of this thanks to a message posted to
"alt.ufo.reports" on October 26. The message from the SETI
discussion forum is at the end. Unfortunately the downloading of
the graph pictures is very slow, so I have given it up for the
present.

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SETI signals at 1450Mhz from EQ Pegasi?=BF

Author: seticontact
Email: seticontact@my-dejanews.com
Date: 1998/10/26
Forums: alt.tv.x-files, alt.fan.art-bell, alt.ufo.reports 
 
At

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hall/7193

is a message I found posted on the SETI discussion forum today.
It reads like something out of science fiction but to the best
of my knowledge it's true: Apparently Jodrell Bank is looking
into this. Oh yeah, the .GIFs mentioned in the message are on
this website:

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hall/7193

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And here's the page.

Stig

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Pictures of SETI Signals from unknown engineer in the UK.

(Picture) October 22, 1998 21:13 UTC

(Picture) October 23, 1998 21:17 UTC

I have contacted the engineer and requested more information.
One thing of interest is that the position of these signals
coincides (roughly) with the position of a star named EQ Pegasi
which is about 22 light years away in the constellation Pegasus.
The SETI Institute thought they might have picked up signals
from this star back on September 17th and their description of
the events that followed is here (link).

Here is the text of the message that appeared on the SETI email
forum 10-26-98:

<Begin Quote>

Several days ago I sent the message below to the executive
director and the "Hits" list without a response. (This may be
due to me not being a member of the SETI League). I am very
excited about this yet it seems no one at the SETI League
leadership is interested so I send this along to the members and
appeal to them to help confirm this interesting signal. I have
tried sending this several times all to no avail. This is my
last attempt as I think I may be censored.

Message follows:



Hello,


I am sending this along to inform you of a possible SETI Hit.
First let me state, I am *NOT* a member of the SETI League for
reason's I would rather not go into. I have however been
conducting Amateur SETI for little over a year and a half. I am
an engineer at a major telecommunications firm in England and I
have for the last year conducted SETI from one of the large (10
Meter) dishes we have here that was taken offline some years
ago. This is a "parasitic" experiment and no one around here
knows I mounted a 2nd feedhorn on the dish due to the fact that
I am the engineer.

The station is as follows:

One 10 Meter dish ----> into a custom built (by me) 1450 Mhz
Feedhorn >-----> into a custom built (again by me) -----> a
"waterhole" filter (again designed and built by yours truly)
-----> an Inmarsat LNA with about 25db gain ----->an ICOM R7100
whose output is sent to two Pentium II's (one running SETIFOX,
the other FFTDSP42).

Here is what happened: On 22 Oct 1998 at about 21:13UTC FFTDSP
logged a "Hit". Whilst I was working outside the signal faded
into view. I looked at the FFTDSP screen when I came inside to
take a break to find the last bit of signal trailing into
static. I quickly used the REPLAY.EXE program to replay the data
to find what you see in the gif file HIT.GIF. The antenna was
pointed at RA: 23 degrees 31 minutes 48 seconds (approx.),
Declination: 19 Hours 55 minutes 58 seconds (approx.).

Several times during my shift I moved the antenna to that
position but the signal did not reappear. Today 23 Oct 1998 at
approximately the same time (21:17UTC in this case) the same
signal was picked up at the same RA and declination. I had come
in prepared to check again for the signal. Between last night
and tonight I checked out all equipment to ensure it was in good
health so you can imagine my excitement when SETIFOX alerted me
at about the same time that it detected a carrier. I had FFTDSP
logging the data again and you can see by looking at HIT02.GIF
the signal did almost the exact same thing as the night before.
I hurried to move the antenna off the source and when I did so
the signal went away I moved it back on and lo and behold there
it was. I ran two more on-source, off-source tests of this type
before finally keeping it onsource by putting the antenna in
tracking mode. I during this time I recorded several minutes of
data in the form of a .WAV file to disc.

Now that said, I am very reluctant to give my name due to the
nature of my work and the fact that my supervisors know nothing
of my SETI endeavor. I have a wife and kids and don't want to
risk my job unless I know for sure this is the real thing. I was
hoping your lot could check it out over the weekend since I will
be unable to take data during my days off. I don't risk having
the programs running when I am not there just in case someone
from the company comes nosing around. Anyway if this sequence
occurs again Monday or Tuesday I will alert Jodrell Bank, and
the media (BBC, CNN,Skynews, and the like) due to the fact that
I don't trust many people, SETI folks included. (No offense
meant)

73's (I'd give my call but that would give me away.)

So I'll just sign this, anonymous (for now)