Holic, a plush planet years away, possibly relatively inhabited, left four ominous omens, laboriously sending dynamic alerts last March 31, 2011.
Scientists at the Russian Federal Space Agency, NASA and Search for Extraterrestrial Life Institute have been working together, under the radar literally, compiling data received in June 2009 and have now officially confirmed the existence of intelligent life outside planet Earth.
The planet is being recognized by the Russian scientist to first put the pieces to the puzzle together, Yegor Holic, 68, who has worked on projects searching for extraterrestrial life since 1978.
"The first signal I had received was very confusing because it was a familiar voice and in English," said Mr. Holic.
Mr. Holic had just sat down at his station in Kazakhstan after his lunch, when data started filing his computer. The information was a binary code of data that he had never seen before.
Over the next few weeks a billion bits of binary code, a complex series of digits only consisting of 1s and 0s, were recognized as audio files and compiled to be played before the heads of each agency that has assisted in the program.
"You can only imagine the surprise when our first connection to another planet was the voice of John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States of America," said Mr. Holic.
The signal was a recording of a speech made to Congress in 1961 that has been traveling through the universe, where it arrived at Holic, in 1985.
Apparently, the scientists of Holic deciphered the signal, possibly believing it was meant for them specifically and not a message to the United States Congress.
In his address, President Kennedy discusses his plans to strengthen the economy in response to the recent recession, advocates increased defense spending and support for the nation's space program and addresses the possible spread of communist ideology through Latin America and Southeast Asia.
"We know this was not just a reflected signal that bounced back to earth, because the data that was included had images of the planet Holic and information on their culture, which we are still deciphering," said Derrik Richter, a German astrophysicist the SETI Institute.
"Each transmission takes nearly 25 years to travel from one planet to another until we can develop a way to speed the process, which we are working on right now," Mr. Richter said.
The new planet has similarities to earth in that it is also nearly 90 million miles from its sun, has an atmospheric mixture of nitrogen and oxygen and has one satellite rotating in orbit around Holic.
"Holic is located more than 156 light years away from earth, making travel in our current technology impossible, so right now, I can be content just knowing that life exists elsewhere in our vast universe and that our decades of work has not been for naught." said Professor Vlad Bolnov of the Lomonosov Moscow State University.
"This is the tip of the proverbial iceberg,"said Mr. Holic. "The generations that follow ours will be the ones who reap the rewards of first contact."
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