Alien Communication? Clever Hoaxes? Top Secret Intelligence? – Unexplained Broadcast Interruptions!
Recently in your Facebook feeds you may have seen a report on an unknown “alien” broadcast that occurred in November 1977 in the United Kingdom. It is just one of many unknown or hi-jack broadcasts since the age of satellite and television.
Most seem to be either government secret transmissions, or simply hoaxes – although it should be noted just how much knowledge, organisation, and high-tech equipment is required just to pull off a hoax.
The Southern Television broadcast interruption came through the Hannington transmitter of the Independent Broadcasting Authority in the United Kingdom at 5:10 pm on 26th November 1977. A speaker interrupted transmissions for six minutes and claimed to be a representative of an “Intergalactic Association.”
The voice, which was disguised with a voice distorter, with a deep buzzing in the background, interrupted the local ITV news. It was audio only that was heard as the UHF audio signal of the early-evening news was over-ridden. The voice warned, “All your weapons of evil must be removed” and “You have but a short time to learn to live together in peace!”
Shortly after the statement had been delivered, transmissions returned to normal shortly and the end of a Looney Tunes cartoon could be seen. Southern Television later apologised for what it described as "a breakthrough in sound" for some viewers.
While most perceive the incident to be nothing more than a clever hoax, many others believe it to be a genuine message from the "Pleiadians” - also known as Nordic aliens, who are humanoid aliens that come from the stellar systems surrounding the Pleiades star system.
Despite investigations into the incident, the source of the interruption was not able to be traced, and the fact that five transmitters had to be taken over simultaneously suggested whoever was behind it, had considerable knowledge and power sources. You can check out the full broadcast of this incident at the bottom of this article.
Most seem to be either government secret transmissions, or simply hoaxes – although it should be noted just how much knowledge, organisation, and high-tech equipment is required just to pull off a hoax.
The Southern Television broadcast interruption came through the Hannington transmitter of the Independent Broadcasting Authority in the United Kingdom at 5:10 pm on 26th November 1977. A speaker interrupted transmissions for six minutes and claimed to be a representative of an “Intergalactic Association.”
The voice, which was disguised with a voice distorter, with a deep buzzing in the background, interrupted the local ITV news. It was audio only that was heard as the UHF audio signal of the early-evening news was over-ridden. The voice warned, “All your weapons of evil must be removed” and “You have but a short time to learn to live together in peace!”
Shortly after the statement had been delivered, transmissions returned to normal shortly and the end of a Looney Tunes cartoon could be seen. Southern Television later apologised for what it described as "a breakthrough in sound" for some viewers.
While most perceive the incident to be nothing more than a clever hoax, many others believe it to be a genuine message from the "Pleiadians” - also known as Nordic aliens, who are humanoid aliens that come from the stellar systems surrounding the Pleiades star system.
Despite investigations into the incident, the source of the interruption was not able to be traced, and the fact that five transmitters had to be taken over simultaneously suggested whoever was behind it, had considerable knowledge and power sources. You can check out the full broadcast of this incident at the bottom of this article.
The Max Headroom incident of 1987
The Max Headroom Incident
Although not a broadcast that claimed to come from outer space, but perhaps one of the strangest broadcast takeovers happened a decade later on the other side of the Atlantic, in Chicago – known as the Max Headroom incident.
On 22nd November 1987 during the news and sports on WGN TV in Chicago, the broadcast was suddenly interrupted. The screen was black for around fifteen seconds, before a figure with a “Max Headroom” mask on came into view. He was dancing in front of corrugated sheets of metal that appeared to be moving, and an unpleasant “buzzing” noise could be heard. In total the hi-jacking of the network news totalled around thirty seconds (including the fifteen seconds of black screen).
Later that evening however – a little after 11pm, on Chicago’s WTTW network, during an episode of “Doctor Who,” the signal was again interrupted with the same person in the mask appearing on the screen.
This time, as well as the bizarre dancing, the person in the mask made some curious statements. He made reference to the network’s sports-castor, Chuck Swirsky, slamming the Chicago Tribune, and appeared to be holding a Pepsi can while saying “Catch the wave!” – a reference to a Coke advertising campaign.
The broadcast was also more provocative and sexual than the first one, with the figure baring his buttocks, and another figure appearing to spank someone with a flyswatter – the phrase, “Bend over bitch!” can also be made out within the buzzing that surrounds it.
The second broadcast ran for around ninety seconds and like that they were gone. While it is hard to place any meaning to what appears to be a one-off hoax, many still find it unsettling, not least because no-one has ever come forward to own up to broadcast.
The level of expertise the “hackers” had to have had was obvious to those in broadcast signals, as was the quality of their equipment. Experts at the time stated that the level of equipment that would have had to have been utilised to get such a strong signal would have cost around $25,000 at the time. It was also argued that the people responsible would have had to have been very close to WTTW’s broadcast antenna, which sat upon the top of the Sears Tower in downtown Chicago.
However more recently Atlas Obscura tracked down an individual who had volunteered information on the incident on social media (reddit – although since it has been claimed this information is inaccurate) in 2010. Although it was agreed they would not use anyone’s real names, they spoke to the user who went by the name of “bpoag” in his original claims. You can read their article in full here.
He stated that he was involved in a group in Chicago in the 1980s who were “phreakers” – basically broadcast hackers – and that the Max Headroom incident was the work of two brothers (who he would name only as J and K). He claimed that they told him in the days leading up to that weekend that they were planning something “big” and that he should watch Channel 11 on the evening of 22nd November.
It was implied that the stunt, aside from the personal satisfaction of the phreakers, was to demonstrate that “the airwaves were woefully unprotected, and easily exploitable!”
The videos below show the original broadcasts, while the third video is said to be a third, lesser known broadcast that appeared on the same evening on North Reading Broadcast signal.
On 22nd November 1987 during the news and sports on WGN TV in Chicago, the broadcast was suddenly interrupted. The screen was black for around fifteen seconds, before a figure with a “Max Headroom” mask on came into view. He was dancing in front of corrugated sheets of metal that appeared to be moving, and an unpleasant “buzzing” noise could be heard. In total the hi-jacking of the network news totalled around thirty seconds (including the fifteen seconds of black screen).
Later that evening however – a little after 11pm, on Chicago’s WTTW network, during an episode of “Doctor Who,” the signal was again interrupted with the same person in the mask appearing on the screen.
This time, as well as the bizarre dancing, the person in the mask made some curious statements. He made reference to the network’s sports-castor, Chuck Swirsky, slamming the Chicago Tribune, and appeared to be holding a Pepsi can while saying “Catch the wave!” – a reference to a Coke advertising campaign.
The broadcast was also more provocative and sexual than the first one, with the figure baring his buttocks, and another figure appearing to spank someone with a flyswatter – the phrase, “Bend over bitch!” can also be made out within the buzzing that surrounds it.
The second broadcast ran for around ninety seconds and like that they were gone. While it is hard to place any meaning to what appears to be a one-off hoax, many still find it unsettling, not least because no-one has ever come forward to own up to broadcast.
The level of expertise the “hackers” had to have had was obvious to those in broadcast signals, as was the quality of their equipment. Experts at the time stated that the level of equipment that would have had to have been utilised to get such a strong signal would have cost around $25,000 at the time. It was also argued that the people responsible would have had to have been very close to WTTW’s broadcast antenna, which sat upon the top of the Sears Tower in downtown Chicago.
However more recently Atlas Obscura tracked down an individual who had volunteered information on the incident on social media (reddit – although since it has been claimed this information is inaccurate) in 2010. Although it was agreed they would not use anyone’s real names, they spoke to the user who went by the name of “bpoag” in his original claims. You can read their article in full here.
He stated that he was involved in a group in Chicago in the 1980s who were “phreakers” – basically broadcast hackers – and that the Max Headroom incident was the work of two brothers (who he would name only as J and K). He claimed that they told him in the days leading up to that weekend that they were planning something “big” and that he should watch Channel 11 on the evening of 22nd November.
It was implied that the stunt, aside from the personal satisfaction of the phreakers, was to demonstrate that “the airwaves were woefully unprotected, and easily exploitable!”
The videos below show the original broadcasts, while the third video is said to be a third, lesser known broadcast that appeared on the same evening on North Reading Broadcast signal.
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Other Truly Bizarre Broadcasts
Another probable hoax was the incident in February 2013 in Montana, when during an episode of “The Steve Wilkos Show” on KRTV, an emergency style alert system kicked in. However, it did not warn of a nuclear assault, a public health alert or a weather emergency (as they are set up to do), instead it warned:
“Authorities have reported in your area, that the bodies of the dead are rising from their graves and attacking the living!”
It went on to warn people not to approach these “zombies” and to consider them dangerous.
KRTV quickly shut down the alert system and immediately apologised, stating they had been the victim of a hoax and that the dead were definitely not rising from their graves in Montana or anywhere else.
While most people took the message for what it was, Montana police still had reassure certain members of the public that there was nothing to worry about. If it wasn’t a hoax, then the only other point to consider is that it was a test run of the signal, and that begs the question, are the government really planning for the so-called, “zombie apocalypse?”
KRTV quickly shut down the alert system and immediately apologised, stating they had been the victim of a hoax and that the dead were definitely not rising from their graves in Montana or anywhere else.
While most people took the message for what it was, Montana police still had reassure certain members of the public that there was nothing to worry about. If it wasn’t a hoax, then the only other point to consider is that it was a test run of the signal, and that begs the question, are the government really planning for the so-called, “zombie apocalypse?”
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In 1995 at Columbia University, a student who was recording the university radio station, WKCR 89.9, on his ghetto-blaster, suddenly noticed a strange, demonic type voice come through the speakers. He could also make out whispering and chanting.
It was said that the episode so disturbed the young student, they hid the cassette tape away and only very recently made them, and his story public knowledge.
Had he recorded a university prank? It would seem if he had, others would also have heard this, and you might even expect those who carried it out would have wanted to claim their work. If not a prank then, did the student record a message from Hell?
Other mysterious broadcasts don’t appear to be hoaxes as much as some kind of top secret coded government or military transmissions.
It was said that the episode so disturbed the young student, they hid the cassette tape away and only very recently made them, and his story public knowledge.
Had he recorded a university prank? It would seem if he had, others would also have heard this, and you might even expect those who carried it out would have wanted to claim their work. If not a prank then, did the student record a message from Hell?
Other mysterious broadcasts don’t appear to be hoaxes as much as some kind of top secret coded government or military transmissions.
The UVB-76 signal is said to originate from this building.
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UVB-76 Transmission, also known as “The Buzzer” was first noticed in Moscow around 1982 and is a constant buzz tone that changes pitch equalling twenty-five tones per minute. It is broadcast on 4625KHz and is sometimes interrupted by a voice speaking in Russian.
It still is heard to this day, not only in Moscow but right across Europe, with most thinking that it is a transmission of top secret military information.
In 1988 in Cyprus, a broadcast was heard that began with the famous English song “The Lincolnshire Poacher” before an electronic female voice is heard reciting numbers. After the sequence, the same song ends the broadcast. The last known broadcast of this type was in 2008, and it is thought that it is connected to British intelligence such as MI6.
The E9 Magnetic Fields Station is very similar. It is an Algerian broadcast that begins with Jean Michel Jarnes, “Overture Arpeggiator” – before, in Arabic, the words, “Forty-Four D!” are spoken three times, and then “Again! Again!”
The opening song is then heard to close the broadcast – it is thought this is Intelligence services, quite possibly from Algeria.
Another similar broadcast that is likely to be intelligence based is “The Swedish Rhapsody,” although this one is slightly more mysterious and unsettling than the previous two. It began in the early 1970s and seemed to vanish in 1988. It originated from somewhere in Germany and has the version of The Swedish Rhapsody played on an old style music box. Perhaps rather chillingly, an electronic voice that seems to belong to a child can be heard on the broadcast.
After five minutes a series of messages are spoken and then repeated, before another series are spoken and repeated. Many have studied recordings of this broadcast, and no-one has appeared to be able to make any kind of sense of it.
It still is heard to this day, not only in Moscow but right across Europe, with most thinking that it is a transmission of top secret military information.
In 1988 in Cyprus, a broadcast was heard that began with the famous English song “The Lincolnshire Poacher” before an electronic female voice is heard reciting numbers. After the sequence, the same song ends the broadcast. The last known broadcast of this type was in 2008, and it is thought that it is connected to British intelligence such as MI6.
The E9 Magnetic Fields Station is very similar. It is an Algerian broadcast that begins with Jean Michel Jarnes, “Overture Arpeggiator” – before, in Arabic, the words, “Forty-Four D!” are spoken three times, and then “Again! Again!”
The opening song is then heard to close the broadcast – it is thought this is Intelligence services, quite possibly from Algeria.
Another similar broadcast that is likely to be intelligence based is “The Swedish Rhapsody,” although this one is slightly more mysterious and unsettling than the previous two. It began in the early 1970s and seemed to vanish in 1988. It originated from somewhere in Germany and has the version of The Swedish Rhapsody played on an old style music box. Perhaps rather chillingly, an electronic voice that seems to belong to a child can be heard on the broadcast.
After five minutes a series of messages are spoken and then repeated, before another series are spoken and repeated. Many have studied recordings of this broadcast, and no-one has appeared to be able to make any kind of sense of it.
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Signals Of A More Historic Significance?
Although most of the above are either elaborate hoaxes or top secret government intelligence transmissions, at least two signals appear to suggest, at least the possibility that signals have been sent to us from beyond our planet.
The ”WOW” signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected by Jerry R. Ehman on August 15, 1977, while he was working at Ohio Wesleyan University's Observatory. The signal bore the expected hallmarks of non-terrestrial and non-Solar System origin, and appeared to have come from the Sagittarius constellation.
The entire signal sequence lasted seventy-two seconds - the full amount of time that “Big Ear” was able to observe it, but has not been detected since. The famous name of the signal stems from when Ehman circled the signal on the computer printout and excitedly wrote the comment "Wow!" next to it.
The ”WOW” signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected by Jerry R. Ehman on August 15, 1977, while he was working at Ohio Wesleyan University's Observatory. The signal bore the expected hallmarks of non-terrestrial and non-Solar System origin, and appeared to have come from the Sagittarius constellation.
The entire signal sequence lasted seventy-two seconds - the full amount of time that “Big Ear” was able to observe it, but has not been detected since. The famous name of the signal stems from when Ehman circled the signal on the computer printout and excitedly wrote the comment "Wow!" next to it.
A message sent out three years earlier in 1974 by Carl Sagan was named the Arecibo message after the satellite dish it was sent from. It was designed by Frank Drake who was Director of Arecibo Observatory, and was essentially a binary code that contained information about humans, the Earth’s population, DNA and our atomic and numerical system.
The broadcast, or beam, was aimed at globular cluster M13 – a star system around 25,000 light years away. Although no official reply has been received, it is worth noting that a declassified NSA document titled, “Key To The Extraterrestrial Messages” shows that a total of twenty-nine “messages” were observed. Messages that literally came from outer space after the Arecibo signal was sent, and that were in binary form. You can read that document in full here.
Below you can see the full version of the Southern Television interruption from 1977 and make of it what you will.
[Marcus Lowth April 2016]
The broadcast, or beam, was aimed at globular cluster M13 – a star system around 25,000 light years away. Although no official reply has been received, it is worth noting that a declassified NSA document titled, “Key To The Extraterrestrial Messages” shows that a total of twenty-nine “messages” were observed. Messages that literally came from outer space after the Arecibo signal was sent, and that were in binary form. You can read that document in full here.
Below you can see the full version of the Southern Television interruption from 1977 and make of it what you will.
[Marcus Lowth April 2016]
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