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Soviet-American conference on contacting extraterrestrial intelligence at Byurakan

When: Sep 1971
Where: Byurakan, Armenia
Sources: 1 public source

Byurakan Observatory in Armenia, host of the 1971 Soviet-American SETI conference Rita Willaert, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the USSR Academy of Sciences jointly held a symposium on communicating with extraterrestrial civilizations at Byurakan Observatory in Soviet Armenia. Carl Sagan, Frank Drake and Francis Crick took part; Sagan edited the 1973 proceedings.

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OfficialCommunication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Byurakan, 1971) (opens in a new tab)Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory

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