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United States
42.51 N, 71.56 WView on OpenStreetMap (opens in a new tab)
2 events here, 1985 to 2006, in date order.
Physicist Paul Horowitz's Project META, an 8.4-million-channel receiver listening for radio signals from other civilizations, came online at Harvard's Oak Ridge field station. Steven Spielberg gave $100,000 for the equipment, and The Planetary Society sponsored the search.
The Planetary Society and Harvard dedicated a 72-inch telescope at Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts, built only to look for brief laser-like flashes that could come from other civilizations. Physicist Paul Horowitz led the project, which surveyed the northern Milky Way.
