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October 30, 1998: Ghost to Ghost 1998 | EQ Pegasi - Richard C. Hoagland & Seth Shostak
Published 1 year, 11 months ago
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Art Bell opens his annual Ghost to Ghost broadcast with a stunning photograph from a firefighter in Missouri showing what appears to be a Native American warrior on horseback in the flames of a practice fire on an Indian burial ground. Listeners share chilling accounts of apparitions, haunted hotels, and ghostly encounters from locations around the world.
The evening takes a dramatic turn when Art breaks in with developing news about a possible signal from the EQ Pegasi star system. A second independent confirmation arrives from a radio amateur in Guernsey, who reports detecting a narrow-band signal at 1453.8273 megahertz that appears and disappears when his dish is moved on and off the target coordinates. Richard C. Hoagland joins to reveal that the original anonymous engineer, now identified as Paul Doerr, is a credentialed radar specialist with British aerospace firms.
SETI astronomer Seth Shostak weighs in with cautious skepticism, noting the signal could be terrestrial interference entering through antenna side lobes. He acknowledges interest but offers to bet a double latte that this is not first contact. Hoagland proposes the signal may originate from a decelerating interstellar probe rather than the distant star itself, calculating an approach speed of roughly 4,000 miles per second based on the apparent Doppler shift.
The evening takes a dramatic turn when Art breaks in with developing news about a possible signal from the EQ Pegasi star system. A second independent confirmation arrives from a radio amateur in Guernsey, who reports detecting a narrow-band signal at 1453.8273 megahertz that appears and disappears when his dish is moved on and off the target coordinates. Richard C. Hoagland joins to reveal that the original anonymous engineer, now identified as Paul Doerr, is a credentialed radar specialist with British aerospace firms.
SETI astronomer Seth Shostak weighs in with cautious skepticism, noting the signal could be terrestrial interference entering through antenna side lobes. He acknowledges interest but offers to bet a double latte that this is not first contact. Hoagland proposes the signal may originate from a decelerating interstellar probe rather than the distant star itself, calculating an approach speed of roughly 4,000 miles per second based on the apparent Doppler shift.