The year 2022 has seen Congress hold a UFO hearing, a Russian official confirm UFO studies and China involved in a radio sweep for alien signals.
Until recently, this hasn't been the case, Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute in California, toldA stock photo shows radio telescopes at the Very Large Array observatory in New Mexico. Radio telescope observations are one way scientists search for alien life."The Chinese are getting involved and other countries in Europe, finally, are getting involved," he said, noting that the area of study has typically been essentially"restricted to the United States.
Whether this translates into competition, something that mirrors the U.S.-Soviet Union space race of the mid-20th century, is another question.
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