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Signals other than the "Wow! signal"?

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In a 1996 issue of Scientific American, in a box adjoining an article by another author, Carl Sagan reported on a number of signals collected by radioastronomy (probably SETI funded by The Planetary Society), complaining they did not repeat and had a strange statistics, in which they were more frequent in the galactic plane (meaning it wasn't just one or two). Those statements were later explained away by saying it could have been noise in the electronics.

However, apart from the "Wow! signal"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow%21_signal

I didn't hear again about plausible or dubious multiple signals.

Does anyone know a link or links to reliable information on what we've got so far?

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  1. Public release date 4-Jun-2008

    Contact: Lisa DeNike

    lde@jhu.edu

    1-443-287-9960

    Johns Hopkins University

    A Johns Hopkins astronomer is a member of a team briefing fellow scientists about plans to use new technology to take advantage of recent, promising ideas on where to search for possible extraterrestrial intelligence in our galaxy.

    Richard Conn Henry, a professor in the Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins' Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, is joining forces with Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute and Steven Kilston of the Henry Foundation Inc., a Silver Spring, Md., think tank, to search a swath of the sky known as the ecliptic plane. They propose to use new Allen Telescope Array, operated as a partnership between the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., and the Radio Astronomy Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley.


  2. The Wow! signal is completely interesting, but slightly suspicious in that the mirror scope didn't pick it up 3 minutes later.  

    Here is an article about the best SETI signal after WOW, but it doesn't sound promising.  

    http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn63...

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