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Now, when it comes to flying saucers and little green men, I'm usually a skeptic. I don't think that aliens would come to Earth, then spend all their time abducting rednecks and mutilating cattle 

However, I found out about something recently that was quite interesting: The "Wow!" signal. In 1977 a researcher working for SETI detected a strong radio pulse coming from the star Tau Sagittarii. This was on a bandwidth in which terrestrial transmitters are forbidden to transmit in. The pulse was so surprising and so similar to what an expected E.T. signal would look like, that the researcher wrote "Wow!" on the computer print out. The signal only lasted for 72 seconds, and nothing like it was ever detected again.

It's possible that it was a terrestrial broadcast or some freak natural event, but it's the closest thing we've ever gotten to a real alien signal. Makes you look up at the stars, smile, and wonder...

Wikipedia link for those who want to learn more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow%21_signal