“I can never forget the first sensations I experienced when it dawned
upon me that I had observed something possibly of incalculable
consequences to mankind. I felt as though I were present at the birth of
a new knowledge or the revelation of a great truth….
It positively terrified me, as there was present, something mysterious,
not to say supernatural, and I was alone in my laboratory at night; but
at that time the idea of these disturbances being intelligently
controlled signals did not yet present itself to me.
The changes I noted were taking place periodically and with such a clear
suggestion of number and order that they were not traceable to any
cause known to me. I was familiar, of course, with such electrical
disturbances as are produced by the sun, Aurora Borealis, and earth
currents, and I was as sure as I could be of any fact that these
variations were due to none of these causes.
The nature of my experiments precluded the possibility of the changes
being produced by atmospheric disturbances, as has been rashly asserted
by some. It was sometime afterward when the thought flashed upon my mind
that the disturbances I had observed might be due to an intelligent
control. Although I could not decipher their meaning, it was impossible
for me to think of them as having been entirely accidental. The feeling
is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the
greeting of one planet to another. A purpose was behind these electrical
signals.”
Tesla, Nikola (1901)
In the Collier’s Weekly: “Talking With the Planets”
In 1899 while investigating atmospheric electricity using a Tesla coil
receiver in his Colorado Springs lab Tesla observed repetitive signals,
substantially different from the signals noted from storms and Earth
noise, that he interpreted as being of extraterrestrial origin. He later
recalled the signals appeared in groups of one, two, three, and four
clicks together. Tesla thought the signals were coming from Mars.
Analysis of Tesla's research has ranged from suggestions that Tesla
detected nothing (he simply was misunderstanding the new technology he
was working with) to claims that Tesla may have been observing naturally
occurring Jovian plasma torus signals. Whatever it might have been, the
signal inspired Tesla to reach for the stars.
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