It's been 50 years since Philip Morrison and Guiseppe Cocconi published their seminal scientific paper on SETI in the journal Nature, and since Frank Drake first used the Tatel telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia, to attempt to detect any radio signals from technologies he thought could be orbiting the nearby stars of Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani.

CNN: What if there's somebody else out there?

But did I detect a government attempt to find a 'quick fix' solution to alleviate teacher shortages?

BBC: Spin on classroom assistants

To detect individuals with delinquent student loan obligations who attempt to obtain HUD loans.

WHITEHOUSE: Matching Programs Conducted in 1994 and 1995