Deep space radio signals could be from aliens; Scientists discover 6 new FRBs from far away constellation

Scientists with the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia have detected powerful radio signals from a constellation far away from the Milky Way galaxy. Interestingly, the experts detected the signals repeatedly from the exact same location in space. Now, the think the signals could be aliens.

According to a report in The Astrophysical Journal, the scientists discovered six new fast radio bursts (FRBs) emitting from the constellation Auriga (FRB 121102), three billion light years away from earth. Up to now, 17 such FRBs have been detected in the region and the experts are surprised as it’s the first time these signals have been found twice in the same location in space. The experts are trying to find an answer to these mysterious radio signals.

“Whether FRB 121102 is a unique object in the currently known sample of FRBs, or all FRBs are capable of repeating, its characterisation is extremely important to understanding fast extragalactic radio transients,” the astronomers wrote in the report.

It appears as if something is trying to establish some sort of communication by sending these signals. Such signals were also found earlier this year and in 2012. The scientists state that such signals can have only two possible explanations and they are trying to find out which is causing these radio signals. One, the solar flares are neutron stars or they are from extraterrestrials.

Laval University scientists Ermanno F. Borra and Eric Trottier, had also published a report earlier this year, stating they too had observed strange signals from a small cluster of stars and believed them to be from aliens. They found that the detected signals had exactly the shape of an extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) signal.

Moreover, in 2015, physicists Michael Hippke and John Learned argued that repeating FRB waves had a 1 in 2000 chance of being coincidental, reports News.com.au.