U.S. military joins with SETI, Searches for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

SETI’s Allen Telescope Array is back online, thanks to the U.S. Military. According to SETI, the United States Air Force is deeply interested in a “formal assessment of the instrument’s utility for Space Situational Awareness.”

Source: Dateline Zero

With the help of 2,700 independent supporters and a new deal with the U.S. Air Force, the SETI Institute’s Allen Telescope Array is back online. Yes, U.S. Air Force is teaming with SETI to scan the newly-discovered “Earth 2.0″ for intelligent life.

By “Earth 2.0″ I of course mean “Kepler-22b.” (Earth 2.0 sounds a little more awesome, but maybe such a title is premature.) For those that haven’t heard the news, this is the exoplanet that NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has discovered orbiting in its sun’s “habitable zone.” It could have a surface temperature close to ours, and hold liquid water — and maybe, just maybe, it could have similar biological life. (Again, such claims are premature — we’ll have to wait and see what comes of this discovery.)

SETI has jumped on this recent discovery, and so has the US Air Force. It makes sense when you consider that the U.S.A.F is the same branch of the military that managed Project Blue Book and, more recently, a secretive spaceship.

Bur remember: The U.S. Military has zero interest in UFOs and ET.

Read the full post at Dateline Zero.