SYDNEY: Scientists at Parkes Radio Telescope in Australia now know where those alien signals they kept picking up came from – their staff kitchen’s microwave oven. Since 1998 everybody had been wondering whether they came from intelligent aliens from far away in space.
In 1998, the Parkes Radio Telescope, located in New South Wales, started detecting unusual signals. Eminent scientists theorized they may have been signals from another galaxy, interference from lightning strikes or emissions from neutron stars turning into black holes.
Now we all know these signals were caused by Parkes staff members opening the door of their microwave oven during its cycle, i.e. opening it too early, before the ‘ping’ sound that tells you it has stopped cooking.
