Abstract
Evidence is presented that radio pulsars may be artificially engineered beacons of extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) origin. It is proposed that they are beaming signals to various targeted Galactic locations including our solar system and that their primary purpose may be for interstellar navigation. More significantly, about half a dozen pulsars appear to be marking key sky locations that convey a message intended for our Galactic locale. One of these, the Millisecond Pulsar (PSR1937 + 21), appears to make reference to the center of our Galaxy, which would be a logical shared reference point for any interstellar communication. It is noted that of all pulsars, this one comes closest to the point that lie one-radian from the Galactic center along the galactic plane. The chance that a pulsar would be positioned at this key location, as seen from our viewing perspective, and also display the highly unique attention-getting characteristics of the Millisecond Pulsar is estimated to be one chance in 7.6 trillion. Other pulsars that appear to be involved in conveying this Galactic center message include the Eclipsing Binary Millisecond pulsar (1957 + 20) and PSR 1930 + 22, both of which make highly improbable alignments relative to the Millisecond Pulsar position, the Crab and Vela pulsars, and PSR 0525 + 21. All display one or more unusual attention-getting characteristics. A method is proposed whereby a civilization might magnetically modulates the cosmic ray flux of a neutron star to produce one or more stationary, broadband, targeted synchrotron beams having pulsar-like signal characteristics. Also a lower tech approach is proposed that would instead modulate the relativistic electron beam from a linear particle accelerator to produce a pulsed free electron laser beam.
Highlights
The following intends to demonstrate that most or all radio pulsar signals are likely of artificial origin, challenging the standard assumption that these signals arise naturally
A distinction should be made between the neutron stars, which provide the cosmic ray energy powering pulsar signals which are of natural origin, and the pulsar signals themselves which I suggest are purposely engineered by manipulating an existing stellar cosmic ray flux for purposes of communication
If we choose to agree that the marking of this particular sky position is not a highly improbable fluke of Nature, that the very unusual Millisecond pulsar might instead be a beacon engineered by an intelligent civilization in the Galaxy to intentionally mark this key location which has extraterrestrial communication significance, we are ready to consider other unusual siting’s of distinctive pulsars which together with the Millisecond pulsar appear to synergize with one another to compose a symbolic message
Summary
The following intends to demonstrate that most or all radio pulsar signals are likely of artificial origin, challenging the standard assumption that these signals arise naturally. If we choose to agree that the marking of this particular sky position is not a highly improbable fluke of Nature, that the very unusual Millisecond pulsar might instead be a beacon engineered by an intelligent civilization (or civilizations) in the Galaxy to intentionally mark this key location which has extraterrestrial communication significance, we are ready to consider other unusual siting’s of distinctive pulsars which together with the Millisecond pulsar appear to synergize with one another to compose a symbolic message. The Eclipsing Binary Millisecond (EBM) pulsar, or "Black Widow pulsar" as it is commonly known, is another that further calls our attention to the Galaxy's northern one-radian point This radio pulsar is unusual in that its pulse period comes closest of all pulsars to that of the Millisecond Pulsar, deviating by just 3.184%, and yet it has a sky location just 4.5° away. It is this sort of attention-getting coincidence estimated above, one chance in over ten trillion trillion, that leads one to probe deeper to find out whether there might have been some important reason to call our attention to these nearby supernova explosions
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