Every Airport Has Been Accidentally Signaling Aliens for 70 Years, New Study Reveals

Cristina Gomez
Jul 10
3 min read

Updated: Jul 25

For over seventy years, every airport radar system on Earth has been inadvertently transmitting our exact coordinates to potential alien civilizations across the galaxy. According to groundbreaking research from the University of Manchester, these signals are powerful enough to be detected by any extraterrestrial civilization with technology equivalent to our own, reaching star systems many light-years away. Are our airports signaling aliens?

PhD candidate Ramiro Caisse Saide led the research team that discovered airport radar systems are broadcasting Earth’s location across a sphere containing over 120,000 star systems. The numbers are staggering: Earth’s 40,000 airports and airfields generate approximately 2 quadrillion watts of combined radio signals. Military radar systems contribute an additional 100 trillion watts through highly focused, directional beams that would appear unmistakably artificial to any observer monitoring from interstellar distances.

“Our findings suggest that radar signals produced unintentionally by any planet with advanced technology and complex aviation systems could act as a universal sign of intelligent life,” Saide explained. This research fundamentally changes our understanding of how visible Earth actually is to potential alien civilizations, suggesting we’ve been broadcasting our presence since radar technology became widespread during the Cold War in the 1950s.

The timing of this revelation coincides with extraordinary footage released by Jeremy Corbell, who obtained what he describes as the most significant UAP video in history. The military thermal footage, captured over the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in November 2020, shows a disc-shaped object officially designated as a UAP by the U.S. Department of Defense. According to Corbell, this represents the first time military-filmed footage of a disc-shaped UAP has been captured and released to the public.

The object demonstrates characteristics that challenge conventional explanation. Estimated between 200 and 400 meters in diameter, the craft exhibits intelligent movement patterns while generating no detectable heat signature — a physical impossibility for any known propulsion system. Traditional aerospace technology operates on action-reaction principles, requiring energy output that would be visible on thermal sensors. The complete absence of such signatures suggests technology far beyond current human capabilities.

The timeline implications are profound. Proxima Centauri, our nearest stellar neighbor at 4.2 light-years away, would have received Earth’s radar signals in the late 1950s. Any response from that system would have reached us by the mid-1960s. For more distant civilizations within the 200 light-year detection range, signals transmitted decades ago are only now arriving at their destinations.

Saide’s previous research revealed that mobile phone tower signals could be detectable up to 10 light-years away, meaning Earth’s technological infrastructure creates multiple layers of detectable signatures. Military radar signals can appear up to 100 times stronger from certain vantage points in space, depending on an observer’s location relative to Earth’s rotation and radar distribution patterns.

This research significantly shifts how scientists approach SETI — the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. While SETI has traditionally focused on listening for signals from space, the Manchester findings suggest we should also consider how our own technological leakage appears to potential observers. “Civilizations can actually transmit signals without wanting to do that, unintentionally,” Saide noted, indicating that such detection could serve as a universal marker of technological development.

The strategic location and timing of Corbell’s footage raises additional questions about potential reconnaissance activity. The object was recorded over a politically significant border region during a period of heightened military activity, suggesting systematic observation of human capabilities and geographic boundaries. If genuine, this represents evidence of methodical study rather than random encounter.

The convergence of Saide’s radar research and Corbell’s UAP documentation creates a compelling narrative: decades of unintentional broadcasting may have attracted the attention we’ve long sought through deliberate SETI efforts. While UFO sightings predate radar technology by centuries, the systematic nature of recent observations suggests a possible correlation with our increased electromagnetic visibility.

As Saide concluded, “Our work supports both the scientific quest to answer the question ‘Are we alone?’ and practical efforts to manage the influence of technology on our world and beyond.” The question may no longer be whether we’re alone in the universe, but whether we’re prepared for the implications of contact with civilizations that have been monitoring our technological development for generations.

Our airport radars may have been sending unintended invitations across the galaxy since the 1950s. Recent evidence suggests some of those invitations may have been accepted.