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And I don't think it was because he had anything to hide, but because he simply wasn't interested. Anytime we asked him something non-technical it was like getting blood from a stone. Instead he just wanted to talk endlessly about aerials and broadcast frequencies. Throughout the interview I had our translator repeatedly ask questions like 'how did that make you feel?' or 'can you explain your reaction to that?' and time and time again Giovanni avoided talking about feelings. And not because I found him overtly principled, but because his mind is just so geared for scientific process that he seemed incapable of exaggeration.

But I will say this: after listening to Giovanni answer my questions and then reading through the translations and spending hours assembling the story, I came to the conclusion that fictionalisation is probably beyond him.

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If you want to hear the full account, along with the deeply spooky recordings, you'll have to listen to the show. The older of the two brothers, Achille, died a few years back, but Giovanni is a sprightly 80-year-old and was only too happy to walk us through his story. So we managed to track him down in Turin, where he still lives to this day. I figured it would be interesting to get Giovanni Judica-Cordiglia on the show and ask him directly. (For those of you who don't know, this is our show about people who've lived through extreme events). Some sceptics believe the brothers forged their recordings, while others say their claims are credible, and point to Russia's longstanding history of cover-ups as validation.Įither way, when I first read about this story I became so intrigued I decided to make it the focus of an episode of Extremes. I first read a sceptical account of the brothers' claims on a Quora thread, only to later find an online version of a 1965 Reader's Digest article which presented their story as indisputable fact. It's a story that's been the subject of debate ever since. To Achille and Giovanni, this seemed to point to one thing: that the Soviets were launching people into space, losing them, and covering up their accidents. The other apparently manned (and disastrous) missions overheard by the brothers were never mentioned.

Through all of this, the Soviet Union announced only one successful manned mission, which was that of Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961. 'Conditions growing worse, why don't you answer? We are going slower… the world will never know about us.' This particularly haunting message was intercepted by the brothers on May 17, 1961, without any indication from whom it came: They later recorded a human heartbeat, transmitted as biometric data, and then later a mysterious broadcast in Russian, begging for help.

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Why would an unmanned craft transmit a distress signal?'įor the brothers, this was the first in a series of mysterious mayday calls intercepted from space. We had no proof, but it was the only theory that seemed to fit. And yes, that means you, internet.'Maybe the Soviets had managed to launch a cosmonaut into orbit, but they’d lost them into space. Though the signal was discovered by Russians a year ago, American scientists are now barely sharing this information with the public. “If it too doesn’t repeat, then we won’t know what it was, including the possibility of some kind of local signal whose source just hasn’t been figured out,” Gilster said.

“My own thought is that this is very possibly a one-time signal, much like the famous WOW! signal some years back,” he said in reference to a strong radio signal detected in 1977 that eventually did not come back. The distant solar system reportedly has at least one planet, HD164595b.īut because the signal was detected only once, it could possibly amount to nothing more than space noise, according to science-fiction writer Paul Gilster who spoke to the Guardian. Scientists from the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute, or SETI, say a Russian radio telescope discovered a 'strong signal' coming from a star called HD164595 some 95 light years away. A signal from outer space pointing to possible evidence of intelligent life is having its 15 minutes of internet fame.