From: "K.F. Benton" 
To: artbell@aol.com
Subject: SETI Signals Verified!!
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 17:30:04 PST

Hello Mr. Bell,

I was  listening to your October 28 show live via the world wide web 
as I occassionally do and heard the report you did with a fellow from 
SETI about signals possibly received from the star EQ Pegasi. I heard 
your appeal to other radio amateurs, to try and verify the alleged 
signals. Being that I was equipped to do so I went to work straight away 
on this mystery. I normally work stations in the 23 cm band around 
1296Mhz. I have an ICOM 8500 and a very large dish (4.5 meters or about 
half the size as the one used by that engineer) so I was almost fully 
eqpuipped to follow up on this potentially earth shaking discover. I set 
the dish to that acension and declination and set my radio to scan 
between 1445-1455Mhz. There was noise *but* as soon as EQ Pegasi rose 
(around 12:30 UTC) it wasn't long before my computer locked the radio on 
1453.8273 due to a carrier (pictured as the first red dot) and began 
logging the Doppler shifting signal you see in the enclosed screenshot 
.GIF Again the exact frequency was 1453.8273 with a significant drift. 
If this drift is due to a satellite it has a really unstable oscilator 
which just so happens to mimic the earth's rotation and the rotation of 
some other unknown body. Some differences between my detection and the 
ones posted on your site: The signal is much weaker than was talked 
aboutby you and Seth (which may indicate it being, in fact, 
extra-terrestrial rather thasn earth bound interference). I turned my 
dish 10 degrees away 5 times after the detection you see in the gif and 
each time the signal went away, and each time I brought it back to the 
corridinates of EQ Pegasi it reappeared! I also plotted some 2,000 
artificial, satellites, space probes, etc  against the beam width of my 
dish and none had the rightfrequency or the right orbital 
characteristics to account for the doppler shift shown in the picture. I 
had at first thought this all a hoax but decided to see for myself. Now 
that I have verified this signal I am pretty confident that contact has 
indeed been made.  I will continue to track this object (whatever it is) 
and log as much data as possible.

73's
 K F Benton, Guernsey, UK - Offshore Near Normandy
