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Harvard Astronomer: Space Radio Bursts Could Be Signs Of Alien Ships

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A 64 meter radio telescope at the NASA deep space communications complex in Canberra. (Andrew Fysh/Flickr)
A 64 meter radio telescope at the NASA deep space communications complex in Canberra. (Andrew Fysh/Flickr)

When scientists detected enormous bursts of light coming from outside our galaxy, they came up with several theories about what was behind them: Maybe an exotic new star, maybe a sun that had collapsed.

But one Harvard astronomer says that maybe these bursts were created by an advanced alien civilization.

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Avi Loeb is the chair of the department of astronomy at Harvard University, which tweets @harvard.

This segment aired on March 15, 2017.

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