Case file · Official inquiry
Project Ozma at Green Bank
In April 1960 Frank Drake used a 26-metre radio telescope at Green Bank to listen to the stars Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani: the first modern search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
1960 CE · 38.43, -79.84 · status: official
The account
Nothing artificial was found. Green Bank sits in the National Radio Quiet Zone, where transmitters are restricted, and in 1961 it hosted the meeting where Drake presented his equation.