Southern Incident
First documented television signal intrusion. On November 26, 1977, an audio message, purporting to come from outer space and conveyed by an individual named Vrillon of the Ashtar Galactic Command was broadcast during an ITN news bulletin on Southern Television in the United Kingdom. The intrusion replaced the program audio with a six-minute speech about the destiny of the human race and a disaster to affect "your world and the beings on worlds around you". Later in the message, Vrillon claimed the time to "alter our trajectory as a race" was now, saying an extinction level event was approaching " by the close of the coming millennium[1]". Following the intrusion, the International Broadcasting Association (IBA) confirmed that it was the first time such a transmission had been made. The source of the signal is as yet unidentified.
- ↑ A warning some now interpret as a reference to Y2k, AKA the Millenium Rift.