Oumuamua: First results from scientists scanning mysterious object don't yet show evidence it is an alien spacecraft
Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Scientists scanning a mysterious object that flew past Earth to see if it has alien technology have reported their first results. The organisation behind the project – Breakthrough Listen, which is supported by Stephen Hawking – said that it had found no evidence of artificial signals yet. To test that, experts working with the Breakthrough Listen project decided to point a huge telescope towards the rock and see if it could pick up any trace of alien technology. "A search for signals that may be of artificial origin has begun, but despite the impressive computational power of the Breakthrough Listen computing cluster at Green Bank, the large data volumes mean that this will take some time to complete."
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