The Chronicler's Web (TCW)

by DAN CALLOWAY
Published 10 November 2009 @ 15:14 UCT

WEAVERVILLE, NC – Mark Whittington writes: “It seems that a SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) experiment happened decades before the Project Ozma occurred in 1960. The historians at the blog Letters of Note have uncovered a telegram sent in 1924 by then Chief of Naval Operations Edward W. Eberle instructing the United States Navy to listen for radio transmissions from the planet Mars.”