Our Cousin Neighbour: the planet Nebulus

Episode 2

15 July, 2038

Since the official commissioning of its headquarters 69 years ago, by president Richard Nixon in a secluded underground structure located at Area 51,a highly classified Air force facility located in Nevada, about 83 miles North West of Las Vegas, near Groom lake, officially known as Homey Airport (KXTA), and forms part of Nevada Test and Training range with coordinates:37.2770'N_115.815'W, exactly 27 days after the eve of the Apollo 11 Lunar landing in 1969, the search for extra terrestrial intelligence(SETI) has been beaming signals into outer space directing its array of searchlights at one of our close neighbours :the Cygnus constellation 1000 to 1800 light years away, which constituted part of the "Goldilocks Zone" exoplanets in our own milky-way galaxy with negative results.

SETI is essentially engaged in on going efforts to detect signs of intelligent life forms beyond earth, focusing mainly on techno signatures of advance civilizations. Their key search methods include

(1)Radio SETI : scanning the waterhole frequency range (1,420_1,666MHz)for narrow bands signals between hydrogen and hydroxyl radical emissions.

(2)Optical SETI :detecting brief, powerful pulses using wide range cameras.

(3)Techno signatures :looking for infrared excess, atmospheric pollutions or astroengineering like Dyson spheres.

(4)Artificial Intelligence (AI) integration. Applying machine learning to filter out earth's noise and identity anomalies.

SETI is also open to any other scientific processes or mechanisms, there ever invented that may aid, or be use to achieve its basic objectives.

In expanding its search for extra terrestrial intelligent life forms beyond biosignatures(like oxygen and methane) to techno signatures (detectable signs of advance alien tech), SETI, using James Webbs Space Telescope (JWPT) to analyse exoplanets spheres for artificial chemicals (pollutants, industrial gases etc) and magnetic pulsating signals in one of its collaboration projects for space exploration and techno signatures research around "Goldilocks Zones", in liason with China National Space Agency (CNPA), aided by NASA's Habitable World Observatory (HWO), launched in 2030AD,partly manned by US space forces and CIA personnels, and China's LUD TANCE advance satellite 4.01, stationed 23, 370 miles, 36,000 km in geostationary orbit, intercepted a conflicting signals from the Cygnus constellation which forms part of the "Goldilocks Zones" waterhole, habitable exoplanets about 1,800 light years away in our own milky-way galaxy. The signals were in lazer pulses emissions at 1,246MHz of narrow bands at exactly 04:46 UTC.

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A classified report by SETI's operational director of research,intelligence, surveillance and development, professor Jack Hatton was immediately sent to the United States president in Washington, president Jack Williamson Jr, the first openly admitted gay president of the United States of America. The report ran thus :

Report :confidential

Status :classified

Ref:SETI /0187b/USAP/Code _A

Dated: 16 August, 2038

From :SETI Operational Hub, Area 51 Nevada

To:The president of the United States of America

Subject :Update :SETI Observatory status for habitable zones and alien techno signatures.

SETI has intercepted clear signals of conflicting Origin, but of confirmed alien intelligent source in lazer pulses from Cygnus constellation at 1,800 light years away.

SETI has streamlined its scope of potential candidates, using cutting edge technology to the following planets in trying to identify its origin and possible decipher:-

(1)planet Kepler_452b(G_type Earth like yellow sun) with distance of 1,800 light years away with 50% size larger than Earth, and Earth like orbit of 385 days.

(2)Proxima b (M_dwarf red) with a distncr of 4.2 light years away, 1.3x the earth's mass snd orbit of 11 days.

(3)Trappist_le (ultrs cool M_dwarf) with a distance of 39 light years away.

(4)Kepler_18b with a distance of 124 light years away."Hycean world" ocean planet with H2 rich atmosphere containing dimethyl sulfine (DMS) and methane gas linked to life.

(5)Kepler 5.0(G_TYPE Earth like with a yellow sun 5x the mass of earth's sun, 5x the thickness of earth's atmosphere and a yearly orbit of 730 days. Seasonal changes and confirmed rich atmospheric presence of H2, H2o, carbon dioxide, dimethyl sulfine (DMS) and methane. Confirmed Dyson spheres, but unconfirmed artificial lights (city glow)

As at present sir, SETI's best shot is planet Kepler 5.0

The president will be updated on every current development.

Signed:(ODRD) Prof John D. Williams. (for X12 Horizon)