The Pioneering 1960 Project Ozma: The First Systematic SETI Search That Legitimized the Field and Sparked a Technosignature Era

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Project Ozma was the first systematic SETI search, led by Frank Drake in 1960 with the Green Bank telescope to listen for narrowband signals from nearby sunlike stars such as Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani, and although no artificial transmissions were detected, the effort launched SETI as a serious scientific program and inspired later projects.

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Project Ozma was the pioneering systematic search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), conducted from April to July 1960 by astronomer Frank Drake at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRA