New Scientist issued a fascinating story today, right on the coattails of yesterday’s gigantic flying octopoid encounter that dealt with yet another harrowing topic: radio signals emanating from deep space. Scientists, after ruling-out known sources of radio emissions in the Milky Way and other galaxies, described this burst of radio static as unexplained, and that it was six times louder than all “known” similar sources… combined.

Most theories in the early stages of discussing this phenomenon describe how the signal is likely the final calling card, a “scream” if you will,  of one of our universe’s earliest stars as it died. Experts suggest that such stars, hundreds of times larger than Earth’s sun, released massive bursts of charged particles resulting in radio emissions as they collapsed inward on themselves, creating huge black holes in the distant universe.

Gralien Report correspondent Mobius, with a background in broadcast engineering, presented me with some fascinating commentary regarding the mysterious radio signal earlier today, which included his musings on the volume of this massive signal. “They are saying it is natural in origin but LOUD. Strong static does occur on earth at times even in the FM band when the sun is creating a solar storm. What they are talking about is finding loud static on a cosmic level.”

Mobius also says that, for the record, “there are indeed some forms of transmission that can emulate static, but when really looked at, they will show coherence,” citing “burst signal” and “spread spectrum” as examples, which he says “absolutely seem like loud static when captured.”

“I suspect no one has suggested they look at this as spread spectrum transmission and see if they could isolate any intelligence,” Mobius says. “I have long wondered how a radio telescope, expected to find ET transmissions, would deal with spread spectrum transmissions. AM is easy, as you have a carrier you detect which moves up and down in strength with the modulation information; FM, if found, would have a carrier moving a little side to side in frequency based on the modulated information…. but spread spectrum is another beast, and exists as “noise” across a wider area of frequencies. The stuff is next-to-impossible to monitor unless you know the methodology.” For more information on Spread Spectrum Transmissions, click here.

Mobius leaves us with this: “Though unlikely, (this transmission) shouldn’t be ruled-out, since a loud static signal could be a coherent form of modulation, and therefore should be looked at accordingly.” Based on what Mobius describes, could this massive static signal be anything more than the death cries of an ancient collapsing star, and if so, what is it’s source?

Opening The Bandwidth For The Cosmic Signal (AM frequencies radio edit)