• It has been found that “intergalactic” signals detected at Australia’s Parkes telescope since 1998 were actually caused by a microwave in the facility’s kitchen.
• PhD student Emily Petroff set up a monitor and found that opening a microwave while it is still in use could trigger the reception of the mysterious “fast radio bursts”, known as perytons.
• It’s reported that the signals, which have baffled astrophysicists since 1998, were only ever detected during business hours!
• The Parkes Telescope was made famous by the Australian film ‘The Dish’, a comedy starring Sam Neill about a series of mishaps leading up to Neil Armstrong’s moonwalk.

Read more:

https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/27626149/strange-space-signals-from-microwave/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/11582733/Strange-outer-space-signal-that-baffled-Australian-scientists-turns-out-to-be-microwave-oven.html

http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2015/05/06/alien-pings-were-the-microwave

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