On 6 July 1959, CIA officials reportedly have a UFO sighting whilst one of them was attempting to “channel” an alien as part of their investigation of a woman, Mrs Frances Swan, that claimed to be able to channel an alien identifying itself as “Affa”
On 19 September 1959, an article entitled “Searching for Interstellar Communication” by Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison published in the journal Nature, concluding that “the probability of success is difficult to estimate; but if we never search the chance of success is zero”.
