SETI and NASA intercepted a coded message from Jupiter's moon Ganymede in the 80's. They couldn't figure it out. So, they sent a message back: ( conspiracy )

submitted by Dyngetryne

NASA and SETI astronomers picked up on a radio signal that seemed to have a coded message sometime in the mid 1980's. The signal was coming from Jupiter's moon Ganymede and was definitely artificial in nature. The signal was run through multiple computers and no sense could be made as to the meaning of it. President Reagan was notified and an international conference was assembled to determine how to make an attempt to contact whatever beings were sending the message. Eventually it was decided to send a signal to the exact location that the message was coming from on Ganymede. This message would be sent in Morse Code which was considered to be the easiest for an alien civilization to decode. It would read "We have received your signal, but we do not understand it. Please resend your signal using this language and transmission code." Immediately after this message was sent, the mysterious signal from Ganymede ceased its transmission so everyone assumed that we would receive a new signal in Morse Code in a quick period of time. But day after day and then week after week no signal came and officials began to give up hope of actually receiving a response.

Finally after more than a month, a signal was detected coming from the original radio source on Ganymede and incredibly it was in Morse Code. Eagerly NASA scientists translated our first direct contact with an alien civilization.

And it said " We were not talking to you ."

Source

As to the signal itself, this is what Rupert Matthews reports in his book Alien Encounters: True Stories of Aliens, UFO's and other E.T. Phenomenon which was published in 2008.

Psalm144-1

If NASA lied about 6 moon landings why trust them on anything else?

Goater

K.

abc_xyz

Most US Presidents have been briefed on the existence of ETs but they are personally threatened if they are about to disclose this to the public, lest they have some charitable bone in their body and want to aide the greater good. The first step to dissuade disclosure is of course a pile of money. That takes care of about 80% of people wanting disclosure.

If that doesn't work, they are, then their family members are threatened. If that doesn't work, wet works , see JFK.

Having said all that, this radio signal story seems like it started as a joke in a newspaper funny section. Most governments knew about ETs by the 60s. The Germans were meeting with 1 or 2 specific groups in the 20s and 30s (bell craft to start), then the US did the same (Eisenhower) in the late 40s.

The president being involved in something like this in the 80s is either disinformation or a joke.

Goater

I'm pretty sure he is alluding to the fact that if this was a documented event than it would have been in every episode of these kind of shows, as it would be the most concrete evidence for extraterrestrial life that we have, not that he only gets his information from Ancient Aliens.

abc_xyz

Aaaaaaand thanks for all the fish!

repoman

"Be sure to drink your Ovaltine"

TheCompanionCube

The dolphins replied before NASA

srgmpdns

I thought of Kurt Vonnegut.

imakulate

So they learned morse code...and english??

eyeVoated

The Chinese did, amirite?!

ChadPUA

This seems fake to me. I'm an astrophysicist an I work with many people who do radio astronony, and I've never heard of this before, so I question it's authenticity. On a slightly-less formal note, I've never once heard this story on Ancient Aliens or any other similarly-themed program, so it's probably fake.

imakulate

"Bugger off, humans!"