Are these radio signals from space anything extraterrestrial?

Question

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=sfmJP-JT3gI

Answer 1

I do not believe that these sounds are real radio signals, from aliens.

Answer 2

Well sure it sounds like speech. As usual on You Tube there is no original source given and no confirmation is possible. Now if I hear this released from SETI I will be excited about it.

Psi

Answer 3

Very fake. Someone looking to make kicks.

Answer 4

Yes.

LOL..How in the world would I ...or ANYONE ..know????

Weird though! But ..we shouldn't believe everything we hear.

Answer 5

Well if they're from space -- and I repeat 'if' -- then by definition they are something extraterrestrial (originating or occurring outside Earth).  That's not to say they'd necessarily be of intelligent origin.

As the first answerer pointed out, there is no way to know, and I'll add especially given the source of this video -- YouTube.  It could be *anything*.  

The second answer -- "fake" -- suggests the goal was to imitate or deceive, but while that certainly may be true, I see no evidence of it.  He goes on to say, "Someone took original radio waves from saturn and messed them up with some music software..." which may be exactly what happened.  I've played around in recording studios and with audio software.  There's probably not a sound you *can't* create or re-create.

However, I suspect his answer is based only on YouTube's "Related Videos," some of which are labeled 'Saturn,' 'Titan,' or 'Cassini.  But YouTube 'related videos' aren't necessarily on the same precise topic as the video you're watching.  For all we know this video/audio may have had a completely different reason for being, and someone dropped it into that category.  In fact I played one of the 'related videos' and the 'Cassini' sound didn't match any component of this sound, as far as I could tell.

While wushuboy001 also alluded to Saturn sounds, he at least also gives one of many plausible alternative explanations.

Finally, if this sound does contain a real signal from space, it should not be assumed that it's speech (as some people on YouTube did) just because its patterns -- eerie as they may be -- trigger our human sense of recognition.

In my opinion, this is a nice little demonstration of how misinformation gets spread and -- if repeated and unquestioned long enough by enough people -- sometimes even raised to a level of cult or religious acceptance.  Without critical thinking, this could very well be a look at such a cult or religion in its embryonic stage.

Answer 6

Fake. Someone took original radio waves from saturn and messed them up with some music software. The original radio signals were atmospheric whistles on saturn. They were observed for the first time on earth around WW1.

Answer 7

This sounds like what I sometimes get coming through on my baby monitor. We live next to a truck stop and I suspect we get bleed through from truckers plus a lot of weird sounding white noise.

My guess is this is a mixture of the alledged "Saturn Alien Radio Waves" (the musical notes) and human voices, and perhaps some other noise mixed in.

It also sounds like the signal the kids got in the movie "Signs" with the baby monitor.

You would be surprised how much weird stuff baby monitors pick up.