China announced that its giant telescope "Sky EyeHe may have noticed signs of extraterrestrial civilizations, according to a report in the state-run Science and Technology Daily, which later appears to have deleted the report and posts about the discovery. Time.

The narrow-spectrum electromagnetic signals detected by Sky Eye, the world's largest radio telescope, differ from previous images and are being further investigated by the team, the report said, quoting Zhang Tongji, chief scientist of the extraterrestrial civilization search team. , founded by Beijing Normal University, the National Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Berkeley University in California.

It is not clear why the report was apparently removed from the website of Science and Technology Daily - the official newspaper of the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, although the news has already started to spread on the social network "Weibo" and was taken over by other media. including state.

In September 2020, Sky Eye, located in the southwestern Chinese province of Guizhou and has a diameter of 500 meters, officially began the search for extraterrestrial life. The team detected two sets of suspicious signals in 2020 while processing data collected in 2019 and detected another suspicious signal in 2022 from exoplanet observation data, Zhang said, according to the report.

The Chinese celestial eye is extremely sensitive to low-frequency radio bandwidth and plays a key role in the search for extraterrestrial civilizations, Zhang reportedly said. Suspicious signals, however, could also be some kind of radio interference and require further investigation, he added.