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Tesla Claimed He Captured Non-Human Intelligent Signals From Outer Space
The experience terrified the underappreciated genius
Before there was SETI and the WOW signal, and numerous projects designed to contact non-human intelligence in the cosmos, there was a genius inventor named Nikola Tesla, in the early 20th century, who claimed to have done it.
Tesla’s lack of business savvy and an abundance of pure intellectual talent and vision doomed him to die penniless in a shabby hotel room. Soon after, it was stormed by U.S. Government agents, who confiscated all of his scientific papers, and to this day, many of these are still unaccounted for.
In those days, Edison and Marconi dominated the headlines as inventor wizards. Yet it took almost a hundred years for everyone to recognize that it was Tesla — who gave us AC electricity, wireless radio, and X-ray imaging. In reality, Tesla was the true heavyweight of technological breakthroughs.
Terrified By His Success
While working alone at night in his laboratory in Colorado on wireless communications experiments, Tesla started receiving signals that he concluded were not generated by natural causes, but instead were signals being sent by intelligent beings.
