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If intelligent aliens actually do live around Tabby's star, astronomers are determined to find them.

The Breakthrough Listen initiative, which will spend $100 million over the next 10 years to hunt for signals possibly produced by alien civilizations, is set to begin studying Tabby's star with the 330-foot-wide (100 meters) Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, project team members announced Tuesday (Oct. 25).

"The Green Bank Telescope is the largest fully steerable radio telescope on the planet, and it's the largest, most sensitive telescope that's capable of looking at Tabby's star given its position in the sky," Breakthrough Listen co-director Andrew Siemion, who also directs the Berkeley SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley, said in a statement. [13 Ways to Hunt Intelligent Alien Life]

**By surrounding their star with swarms of energy-collecting satellites, advanced civilizations could create Dyson spheres. [Read the Full Dyson Sphere Infographic Here.]**
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"We've deployed a fantastic new SETI instrument that connects to that telescope, that can look at many gigahertz of bandwidth simultaneously and many, many billions of different radio channels all at the same time so we can explore the radio spectrum very, very quickly," Siemion added.

The observations will take place for 8 hours per night for three nights over the next two months, with the first observations set to take place Wednesday (Oct. 26), project team members said.

Tabby's star, officially known as KIC 8462852, lies about 1,500 light-years from Earth. Observations by NASA's Kepler space telescope showed that the star dimmed dramatically several times over the past half-decade or so, at one point by a whopping 22 percent. These occasional brightness dips — which were first reported last year by a team led by Yale University postdoc Tabetha Boyajian (hence the star's nickname) — are far too substantial to be caused by an orbiting planet, astronomers have said.

So researchers have offered up a number of alternative explanations for the dimming to date. Perhaps a cloud of comet fragments periodically blocks the star's light, for example, or maybe some unknown structure in the depths of space between Earth and Tabby's star is responsible.

It's even possible that the brightness dips are caused by an "alien megastructure" — an enormous collection of energy-gathering solar panels, for example.

Astronomers have stressed that the megastructure hypothesis is a long shot, but long shots shouldn't be dismissed out of hand, Breakthough Listen team members said.

"I don't think it's very likely — a one-in-a-billion chance or something like that — but nevertheless, we're going to check it out," Dan Werthimer, chief scientist at Berkeley SETI, said in the same statement. "But I think that E.T., if it's ever discovered, it might be something like that. It'll be some bizarre thing that somebody finds by accident … that nobody expected, and then we look more carefully and we say, 'Hey, that's a civilization.'"

A number of other research teams have already searched for signals coming from Tabby's star, and all of those searches have come up empty so far.

Siemion, Boyajian and astronomer Jason Wright, who's based at Pennsylvania State University, will discuss the planned Tabby's star observations during a video chat from the Green Bank Telescope site on Wednesday at 4 p.m. EDT (2000 GMT). You can watch it live here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijyn0kAMTL8.

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In April 2016 I visited an elderly couple from Gowarzow (read: Gho-vash-ouv) village the in Radmsko area of Poland who had very interested story to tell.

Gowarzow is a small, quiet community located amongst fields and forests in the Gidle commune in Central Poland. Neighboring Gidle village is famous from a Marian sanctuary with a miraculous stone figure that centuries ago was found in the field by a local farmer.

But Mr. and Mrs. R., now both in their seventies had an even more miraculous story to tell. The sighting occurred on January 10th 2011. The couple were returning home at about 9 pm from a visit to their severely ill relative living several houses away.

Gowarzow is a small village with houses very close to each to other and has an old shop building in the center. The witnesses recalled that the main road was empty and all the inhabitants were in their houses because the winter night was cold but very calm, without any wind, snow and ice.

At about 9:10, R’s saw a bloody red spherical object coming out of the western sky. They observed the UFO descending on to their neighbor’s field, about 300 m from their house. When they arrived at the location they clearly saw the strange object standing on the field behind a barn of their neighbor.

Mr. R. who was the main witness in this incident said that at that moment his frightened wife went inside and he decided to examine the strange sighting from afar.

It was about 9:20 pm when he began his observation of one of the strangest UFO landings I’ve ever heard of. Mr. R was observing the object standing near the barn on his lot. Although the UFO landed about 300 m away, it was clearly visible. The object was bloody red, spherical and about 5-6 m in diameter. Around the UFO there were at least 3 “small people” visible. It seemed that they stood on a sort of platform around the object and were bustling around. There were also three “shafts of light” 2-3 m long, protruding from the top of the sphere.

Mr. R. - a man of sharp mind and a very reliable observer stressed that the beings around the object must be very small, just around 0.6 m tall. He said that they looked like excited children and were “joyfully” moving around the object.

He was unfortunately too far away to recognize any features of the midget-like beings and Mr. R decided not to approach the scene any closer. But the most interesting aspect of the Gowarzow landing is the sound accompanying the landing. Mr. R. is sure that he could hear the “voices” of the beings. Their speech must have been very loud and intensive and resembled “excited talk” although he couldn’t recognize any details or words. After about 10 minutes the beings “disappeared” in some unknown way as well as the bright shafts of light. The ball - according to Mr. R. jumped up and down twice and then shot upwards disappearing in to the west.

On the next day Mr. R and his neighbor examined the place of the alleged landing. The object must have stood on or was hovering over a small field between a grove of trees and a small pond. The grove of trees is close to a barn of Mr.R.’s neighbor who unfortunately saw nothing strange on that day (the barn is obscuring the view from his house).

There were no traces left by the UFO or the beings.

Mr. R. tried to discuss the encounter with his neighbors but it seems that he and his wife were the only witnesses to the UFO landing in the field. Mrs. R. several days after the incident asked the local priest what the bloody red object could have been? The priest had no idea. Five years after the incident the landing site has changed dramatically. The pond had dried up and the shrubs had grown blocking the view on the landing site from Mr. R’s lot.

Mr. R is still puzzled by the incident and asked himself: “Why did the small people seem to be so happy?”

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Piotr Cielebiaś is the author of ‘UFOs OVER POLAND’ published by Flying Disk Press which is now available on Amazon. http://flyingdiskpress.blogspot.co.uk/

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