AGXStarseed
Well-Known Member
38 years ago on November 26th 1977 at 5:00pm, adults in Southern England sat down to watch the 5'o'clock news while children eagerly awaited the end of the news broadcast to watch the Looney Tunes episode that would follow it.
At 5:10pm, however, viewers were given a broadcast they never expected to see...
(The subtitles and images have been added onto the original video footage)
Later in the evening following the end of the transmission, Southern Television apologized for what it called a "breakthrough in sound" for some viewers. It was also mentioned on the ITN news.
People took the broadcast seriously, with the news of the incident appearing in the Sunday newspapers as well as been reported around the world. What made the broadcast especially unnerving is that the broadcasters had no idea of the interruption taking place.
The event was mostly dismissed as been a hoax - with the explanation been that the Hannington UHF television transmitter had it's signal intruded upon by an individual (or individuals) with a considerable amount of technical know-how.
Unlike many other transmitters, the Hannington television transmitter rebroadcast an off-air signal received from another transmitter rather then been fed by a landline. As such, even a relatively low-powered transmission very close to the receiver could overwhelm its reception of the intended signal, resulting in the unauthorised transmission being amplified and rebroadcast across a far wider area.
To this date, the incident has entered urban folklore, with the videos of the event ending up on YouTube while the individual(s) responsible have never been caught. This has fueled the belief of some that the 'hacker(s)' were indeed of extraterrestrial origin - especially as the UHF audio was all that was hacked and so we never saw "Vrillon's" face.
Whatever the truth may be, none can disagree that 'Vrillon' did bring up some good points in the video - especially considering what the world is like today.
One can only wonder if one day, Vrillon will be sending us another broadcast...
(Makes me think of this):
At 5:10pm, however, viewers were given a broadcast they never expected to see...
(The subtitles and images have been added onto the original video footage)
Later in the evening following the end of the transmission, Southern Television apologized for what it called a "breakthrough in sound" for some viewers. It was also mentioned on the ITN news.
People took the broadcast seriously, with the news of the incident appearing in the Sunday newspapers as well as been reported around the world. What made the broadcast especially unnerving is that the broadcasters had no idea of the interruption taking place.
The event was mostly dismissed as been a hoax - with the explanation been that the Hannington UHF television transmitter had it's signal intruded upon by an individual (or individuals) with a considerable amount of technical know-how.
Unlike many other transmitters, the Hannington television transmitter rebroadcast an off-air signal received from another transmitter rather then been fed by a landline. As such, even a relatively low-powered transmission very close to the receiver could overwhelm its reception of the intended signal, resulting in the unauthorised transmission being amplified and rebroadcast across a far wider area.
To this date, the incident has entered urban folklore, with the videos of the event ending up on YouTube while the individual(s) responsible have never been caught. This has fueled the belief of some that the 'hacker(s)' were indeed of extraterrestrial origin - especially as the UHF audio was all that was hacked and so we never saw "Vrillon's" face.
Whatever the truth may be, none can disagree that 'Vrillon' did bring up some good points in the video - especially considering what the world is like today.
One can only wonder if one day, Vrillon will be sending us another broadcast...
(Makes me think of this):
