Originally Posted by hoaxorreal

yes I am referring to the former one the Brookings report and it says in that report at the end that an effort has been made to contact the intelligent beings and the scientists are concentrating on a star which is about 15 light years away

It says "governement scientists at green bank used radio signals in an effort to pick up signals that might have been beamed by intelligent beings. they concentrated on a start about 15 light years away"

So in laymans terms how far that is and does anyone know if there was anything related to this report after that?