Essay Example on Area 51 is a top-secret military base in Nevada

Even if scientists do get a message from space it is possible that scientists may not be able to decode or understand it because of how different we could be from whoever sent the message The closest possible planet that there could be life on would be around 4 3 light years away so it would take more than eight years for a message to get to earth and back to them So it's around 4 years to send a message to the closest possible area that could have life What could be the case too is there are some other civilizations out there but they aren t advanced enough to receive our signals or maybe some signals reached earth but it was before we were able to receive it or even before we were looking for one If someone detects a signal that they think is extraterrestrial they have to tell scientists and the scientists have to confirm that it really is extraterrestrial with another radio telescope If it is confirmed to be extraterrestrial and not from earth S E T I says they would release the news immediately and there is no reason to keep it to themselves 

After all it would just bring more attention to S E T I and help them get more funding from the government and from more private investors Redd 2016 Roswell New Mexico is famous for having and extraterrestrial object land in the backyard of someones ranch In 1947 during the first week of July a UFO crashed in W W Brazel s ranch Brazel said he got on his horse to go out and check on his sheep because there was a bad thunderstorm the night before and he started seeing pieces of metal on the ground Then he said he saw a shallow trench that was a couple hundred feet long that was dug into the ground He took some pieces back to his shed and then a few days later reported it to the police He thought it might be a UFO because there had been multiple UFO sightings that summer around that area The local air force base said it was a crashed weather balloon but most people believed it was an alien spacecraft Just a short 50 years later the government decides to release what really happened and it was linked to a top secret atomic espionage project The project was called Project Mogul and it was microphones in high altitude balloons that would detect sound waves from soviet atomic bomb tests Broad 2017 museum 2010