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33.00 S, 148.26 EView on OpenStreetMap (opens in a new tab)
2 events here, 1995 to 2015, in date order.
After Congress ended NASA's SETI program in 1993, the SETI Institute continued its targeted search with private donations as Project Phoenix, starting at the Parkes telescope. Through 2004 it examined about 800 nearby stars and reported no extraterrestrial signals.
Astronomers led by Emily Petroff showed that 'perytons', puzzling radio bursts seen for years at the Parkes radio telescope, came from staff opening a microwave oven door before it finished. Press coverage framed it as an alien-signal mystery, which the researchers said it never was.
