On the night of November 26, 1977,
service of Southern Television broadcast,
which covered parts of southern England, was interrupted by a scratchy sounding
voice claiming to represent the 'Ashtar Galactic Command', delivering a message
instructing humanity to abandon its weapons so it could participate in a
'future awakening' and 'achieve a higher state of evolution. After six
minutes, the broadcast returned to its scheduled program.
The six-minute message was
from a male voice who claimed to be Vrillon,
a representative of the Ashtar Galactic Command. It’s interesting that Vrillon
had a British accent.
So was it the real thing?
No.
Simply put, Southern Television
broadcast was hacked, and, apparently, it was relatively easy to do. Evidence
showed that the transmitter of the Independent Broadcasting Authority had
rebroadcasted the signal from a small, nearby unauthorized transmitter. The
hoaxer, who was never identified, jammed the transmitter in North Hampshire by
taking another transmitter very close to it