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munications, eould mean nothing but a coded message from an
intelligent correspondent on a planet orbiting Tau Ceti. The signals
lasted for about two minutes, then stopped, leaving those attending
stupefied and unable to say a word. Finally, the whole
thing was classified "secret" and that was the end of Project
Ozma; it had lasted little more than two minutes.
However, there was a general feeling in the scientific circles of
that time that a message from outer space had been received and
deciphered but that, for some reason, it was decided that it
could not be disclosed to the public.
Since then a new Project
Ozma has been initiated, but by mihtary personnel this time.
The second case of communications with a space civilization,
which was reported in Paris-Match, April 21, 1973, occurred in
the Soviet Union. Two Russian specialists in space communications,
Vsevolod Troitsky, director of the Radiophysics
Research Institute of Gorki, and Nicolai Kardashev, director
the Space Research Institute in Moscow, were absolutely convinced
that they had received radio signals from an extraterrestrial
civilization.
They initiated their space listening program in 1970, with four
radio frequency listening stations located far apart from each
other. This allowed them, by comparing the received signals,
eliminate terrestrial interferences and keep only the space signals,
those that were indentical from the four receiving stations.
These signals from outer space whose duration varied from two
to ten minutes, were repeated at regular intervals, following a
regular pattern, which for these scientists indicated without any
doubt that they had an artificial origin and that they were transmitted
by intelligent beings whose culture was at least as advanced
as ours.
The two Russian scientists have not succeeded so far in establishing
the exact origin of these signals, but they are positive
that they must originate from our solar system, either from another
planet or from one of its sateHites or even from an alien
spacecraft from another solar system.
The third case of radio communications with outer space was
that of the Izarian astronauts deciphered by Duncan Lunan and
discussed in Chapter 1 of this book.
There is another case history which Hnks extraterrestrial civili-
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