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Speaker 1: This Day in History Class is a production of I

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Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hello Again. It's Eaves and you're listening to

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Speaker 1: This Day in History Class, a podcast that truly believes

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Speaker 1: no day is boring. Today is November. The day was

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Speaker 1: November nineteen. Southern Television's news anchor Andrew Gardner was presenting

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Speaker 1: the news when at five ten pm, the news was

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Speaker 1: interrupted by a distorted voice delivering a cryptic message. It

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Speaker 1: was the first major broadcast interruption and it's still a

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Speaker 1: mystery who was responsible for it. Southern Television was the

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Speaker 1: license holder for the I t V service that covered

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Speaker 1: parts of the south, southeast and southwest of England. The

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Speaker 1: Southern Television broadcast was interrupted via the handing to and

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Speaker 1: transmitter near the village of Hannington in England. The TV

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Speaker 1: image wobbled a little, then the sound was replaced with

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Speaker 1: the mysterious audio. The voice speaking in the transmission identified

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Speaker 1: itself as Reland, an alien that claimed to be a

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Speaker 1: representative of a body called the Ashtar galactic command. It

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Speaker 1: urged humans to live in peace to avoid disaster. Here's

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Speaker 1: an excerpt from the transmission. Be still now and listen,

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Speaker 1: for your chance may not come again. All your weapons

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Speaker 1: of evil must be removed. The time for conflict is

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Speaker 1: now passed, and the race of which you are apart

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Speaker 1: may proceed to the higher stages of its evolution. If

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Speaker 1: you show yourselves worthy to do this, you have but

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Speaker 1: a short time to learn to live together in peace

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Speaker 1: and goodwill. Small groups all over the planet are learning

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Speaker 1: this and exists to pass on the light of the

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Speaker 1: dawning new Age to you all. You are free to

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Speaker 1: accept or reject their teachings, but only those learned to

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Speaker 1: live in peace will pass to the higher realms of

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Speaker 1: spiritual evolution. As TV engineers worked to figure out what

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Speaker 1: was going on, TV visuals continued as normal. The communication

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Speaker 1: ended about six minutes after it began, with villain saying

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Speaker 1: that it was quote leaving the planes of your existence.

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Speaker 1: When it ended, a Looney Tunes cartoon was on air.

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Speaker 1: The station apologized for a quote breakthrough in sound, but

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Speaker 1: the press jumped on the story, and even I TV

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Speaker 1: was reporting the incident on its own news network. The

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Speaker 1: broadcast interruption was a hoax, as the Independent Broadcasting Authority

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Speaker 1: announced after the incident. It was a broadcast signal intrusion,

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Speaker 1: where a hacker gets control of a broadcast frequency. The

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Speaker 1: hacker likely jammed Southern Television's transmitter by putting another low

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Speaker 1: power transmitter close to it, but some people were still

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Speaker 1: concerned about the strange message, and many called Southern Television

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Speaker 1: voicing their worry. Not everyone accepted the interruption as a hoax.

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Speaker 1: Some believed that an alien really was the culprit. There

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Speaker 1: are still conspiracy theories around the incident, since the person

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Speaker 1: who conducted the interruption never stepped up, and because there's

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Speaker 1: disagreement over whether the voice actually said the name Reylon

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Speaker 1: or said a different name. I'm Eve Jeffcote and hopefully

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