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WE are witness again to a surge of interest in, and speculation about, extra-terrestrial radio transmissions which had an earlier flare in the late twenties1. The favourable change in climate for the expression of such ideas since the turn of the century has been of particular interest to me. In 1899, Nikola Tesla established an experimental station at Colorado Springs, where he would be free to pursue certain electrical investigations, unrestrained by the limits imposed by his New York City laboratory. In an article by him2, published after his return to New York in the following year, he presented a rather thrilling account of signals received while alone one night in the experimental station:
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ANDERSON, L. Extra-Terrestrial Radio Transmissions. Nature 190, 374 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/190374a0
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