"The possibility that the suspicious signal is some kind of radio interference is also very high, and it needs to be further confirmed or ruled out. This may be a long process," Zhang Tongjie, chief scientist of China ET Civilization Research Group told Science & Technology Daily [0]
Most of the sensational headlines coming from China died after someone actually went back and asked the team if they were sure.
Which was then followed up with:
"The signals that we found so far are all [radio frequency] interference, they're not from extraterrestrials, they're from terrestrials," Dan Werthimer, a SETI researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, who coauthored a preprint paper about the findings, told Futurism. [1]
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This is being picked up by new outlets but the original source article in the Chinese news was deleted with no explanation.
Most articles being pushed now, including this one, are slow to acknowledge this.
Seems like odd behavior.
Most of the sensational headlines coming from China died after someone actually went back and asked the team if they were sure.
Which was then followed up with:
[0] https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/BtLLCb0GlPxjmhbAz5pUOw
[1] https://futurism.com/fast-signal-not-aliens-scientist