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NSA FOIA Document Claims We Have Received Messages From Space Aliens

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The NSA has recently released several files in accordance with a recent FOIA request, among them was a document stating we have received messages from space aliens.

Original link to the document on NSA’s servers.

Same document on my server in case they take it down.

Interesting to say the least. I have to assume the document is legit since I’m downloading it directly from the NSA themselves.

The document goes on to describe methods for interpreting the signals that were (is/are) being received. It appears as if the messages were keyed off of the period table of elements. Such a key would give us the means to decipher language or data transmission, much like was portrayed in the movie Contact.

Perhaps these guys aren’t crazy after all:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vyVe-6YdUk
 
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Did you read this document, as well?


http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/ufo/et_intelligence.pdf


Both are found at the bottom of this page:


http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/declass/ufo/index.shtml

Looks to me like this was a fictional exercise to, as the second document puts it, "test the reader's ingenuity" by seeing if they can figure out a code made up by a human. The second document refers to another article from that journal on this topic. This is the sort of game you'd expect a bunch of code geeks to play.
 
Horatius said:
Did you read this document, as well?


http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/ufo/et_intelligence.pdf


Both are found at the bottom of this page:


http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/declass/ufo/index.shtml

Looks to me like this was a fictional exercise to, as the second document puts it, "test the reader's ingenuity" by seeing if they can figure out a code made up by a human. The second document refers to another article from that journal on this topic. This is the sort of game you'd expect a bunch of code geeks to play.
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Where did you see that it said this was a fictional exercise?

Which document has that in it?
 
More references:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2489041


In the document after the linked one ( ... )

At the top: "In the most recent issue of the NSA Technical Journal-Vol. XI, No. 1- Mr. Lambrox D. Callimahos discussed certain aspects of extraterrestrial intelligence and included several messages to test the reader's ingenuity. In the following pages, Dr. H. H. Campaigne offers additional communications from outer space."

Implication is that they're just "for fun"?

Further, the NSA Journal referred to is at: ...

And reads as a discussion of how ET would communicate. Received by Sputnik indeed.
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http://www.openminds.tv/nsa-practices-deciphering-et-signals-668/

On April 21, 2011 the National Security Agency posted documents from their Technical Journal which had some interesting articles about extraterrestrials. Some have assumed that these documents were pertaining to messages received from extraterrestrials, an easy mistake to make with article titles such as “Key to the Extraterrestrial Messages.” These documents are actually related to exercises for practicing deciphering coded messages that extraterrestrials may send us in the future. However, there is still a story here, because these exercises were started by a prominent NSA cryptologist who believed more attention needed to be given to the investigation of UFOs and the possibility that we may be contacted soon.

The cryptologist was Lambros D. Callimahos, his biography can be read in the NSA’s Hall of Honor, which he was inducted to in 2003. They state that Callimahos, “played a crucial role in shaping cryptologic development at NSA.” He had developed a special class, designated CA-400, for elite cryptanalysts, if they passed they would become members of what was labeled the Dundee Society. The group’s real purpose was so secret that it was named after an empty Dundee marmalade jar he kept his pens in on his desk.

The recent NSA Technical Journal articles were actually obtained by UFO researchers in 2004, through freedom of information act requests. I first became aware of them watching a lecture by John Schuessler, one of the original recipients. In the winter of 1966 issue of the journal, Callimahos wrote an article titled, “Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence.” This was the dawn of what would later become the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), and Callimahos discussed the work of Dr. Frank Drake, who had shown that the possibility of life in space was actually very large. Callimahos went so far as to state, “Unless we’re terribly conceited (a very unscientific demeanor), we must assume that the ‘others’ are far more advanced than we are.”
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More than a day late and $1.49 short; this has been discussed to death at ATS. It's what Horatius stated, an intellectual exercise.
 
Horatius said:
It's implied in the bit I quoted. Did you read the second pdf?
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No, I just read it now.

Yeah its still hard to say for sure since the original article that is being referenced is unavailible for viewing.

I don't doubt that what you are saying is a plausible explanation though.
 
We'd need to see the technical journals referred to in the PDF and the details of the recevers and technicians that picked up the transmission along with the scientific data showing the signal was real and did in fact come from someplace other than our own solar system. Otherwise it's all just an exercise in deciphering data from who knows where.

j.r.
 
Yeah, I think I this was mentioned some time ago. Unfortunately no space aliens ;)
 
it's twue

It's true! Alas, the message was just a scam by someone claiming to be a banker from Alpha Centauri who wanted access to NASA's bank account to deposit some gold-pressed latinum.

The second extra-terrestrial message offered a natural herbal way to make your tentacles bigger and firmer but let's not go into that here...
 
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Myron Proudfoot said:
It's true! Alas, the message was just a scam by someone claiming to be a banker from Alpha Centauri who wanted access to NASA's bank account to deposit some gold-pressed latinum.

The second extra-terrestrial message offered a natural herbal way to make your tentacles bigger and firmer but let's not go into that here...
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Hey, Alpha Centauri was a great freaking game.....
 
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