This story was first published on December 2nd, 2013
Outline
Circulating report claims that NASA detected a distress call from another galaxy back in 1998 but has only recently been able to decipher the message.
Brief Analysis
The claims in the message are fanciful nonsense. The report is not derived from a NASA press release as claimed. NASA has made no announcement about the supposed message. Versions of the fake story have been circulating since at least 2011. And, if a message did come from beyond the Andromeda galaxy, it would take much, much longer than 80,000 years to reach Earth.
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NASA Experts Claim to have Intercepted An Intergalactic Distress Call
The signal was detected in January of 1998, however, it took months to decode the message…..
Original Source : https://www.hoax-slayer.com/nasa-distress-call-another-galaxy-hoax.shtml