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Originally Posted by geRV

I wonder if it actually turns out to be a signal from another civilization will they actually come out and tell us or will they say it was something else. Im guessing the latter.

Much of the searching done by SETI and astronomers like this are done privatley. So if the government wanted to keep quiet about something like that, they would have to move in on the astronomers doing it before they released the news. I believe if something extraterresterial is found by SETI and confirmed, they would tell us. If this was being done by a world government, they probably wouldn't.

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also
[img]http://www.nrao.edu/pr/2005/newsource/GCregionsm.jpg[/img]
This radio image of the central region of the Milky Way Galaxy holds a new radio source, GCRT J1745-3009. The arrow points to an expanding ring of debris expelled by a supernova.
CREDIT: N.E. Kassim et al., Naval Research Laboratory, NRAO/AUI/NSF

[img]http://www.nrao.edu/pr/2005/newsource/SNRgraph.jpg[/img]
The new radio source is located below the expanding ring of debris of this supernova remnant. The plot illustrates the radio light curve of the five detected bursts occurring every 77 minutes.

http://www.nrao.edu/pr/2005/newsource/