NASA's revolutionary voyager 2 probe is over 3 decades into its heroic journey towards deep space. On April 22nd, 2010 just as the probe prepared to cross the border to enter into interstellar space, it malfunctioned. As NASA’s astronomer, Kevin Baines said:
“About 10 billion miles away from the Earth and all of the sudden it started sending data in the language we did not understand. It could be called as an alien language."Someone or something had altered Voyager 2’s communication system.
"Checking the systems with another data link that they had, Voyager 2 team could tell that nothing else is wrong on the spacecraft. It’s only the communication system."
Later outcomes showed that a single digit in the binary code of command system on Voyager 2; ‘0’ was reversed to a ‘1’. The flipping of one bit of data proposes that something or someone unknown purposely interfered with Voyager 2’s on-board computers.
Binary bit reversing is a trick used by many hackers. Bit reversing can in fact shut down a computer or may corrupt data. Researchers started looking for the cause of possible hack and they first looked at the Earth. But as the distance is involved so this makes it extremely doubtful.
As it is known to all of us that Voyager 2 is carrying a message from mankind into cosmos. The message encoded abroad Voyager 2 is for intelligent civilizations it may come across. So could be a reversing reply to our message?
Some researchers say that bit flipping could be a clear reply from Aliens. After 3 weeks of this anomaly, the researchers were successful in restoring the communication system of Voyager 2. But who or what caused the anomaly is still a mystery. The exact cause of bit flipping still stays unknown to us.
Was it Alien? Well, Could be.