For many years you have seen us as lights in the skies. This is the voice of Vrillon, a representative of the Ashtar Galactic Command, speaking to you. Transcript Ī complete transcript of the message reads: ITN also reported on the incident in its own late-evening Saturday bulletin. Later in the evening, Southern Television apologised for what it described as "a breakthrough in sound" for some viewers. The interruption ceased shortly after the statement had been delivered, transmissions returning to normal shortly after the beginning of the 1947 Merrie Melodies cartoon The Goofy Gophers. Reports of the incident vary, some calling the speaker "Vrillon" The speaker claimed to be Vrillon, a representative of the Ashtar Galactic Command ( Ashtar being a name associated with extraterrestrial communication since 1952). On Saturday 26 November 1977, at 5:10 pm, as ITN's Andrew Gardner presented a news summary where he reported on clashes in then- Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) between security forces and Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army, the audio was replaced by a deep buzz, followed by a distorted voice delivering a message for almost six minutes. These are sometimes contradictory, including differing accounts of the name used by the speaker and the wording of their message. The event prompted hundreds of telephone calls from concerned members of the public, and was widely reported in British and American newspapers. Subsequent investigations showed that the Hannington transmitter of the Independent Broadcasting Authority had rebroadcast the signal from a small but nearby unauthorised transmitter, instead of the intended source at Rowridge transmitting station. After six minutes, the broadcast returned to its scheduled programme. The audio of a Southern Television broadcast was replaced by a voice claiming to represent the 'Ashtar Galactic Command', delivering a message instructing humanity to abandon its weapons so it could participate in a 'future awakening' and 'achieve a higher state of evolution'. The Southern Television broadcast interruption was a broadcast signal intrusion that occurred on 26 November 1977 in parts of southern England in the United Kingdom. He has no idea where or what they are doing today and the author has not come in contact with them for a number of years.Īnother Reddit article article confirms the author's naming of places and the kind of people involved, but he as well did not divulge any personal info.The Hannington transmitter mast in 2006, from where the broadcast signal was hijacked None of the claims are proven (and the author even says he doesn't know for sure if they are behind it) and the identities of the supposed hijackers were protected as to not disrupt their current lives. The article gained some media attention and received over 200 comments. In 2011, an AMA Reddit article by user bpoag claimed that he " may know who was behind the hijacking". They go on to state that the FCC and FBI will likely never catch the culprit. The station inserted clips of the hijacking (without sound) during a newscast of Mark Giangreco's highlights. WTTW received many calls from people wondering exactly what was occurring as early as the last few seconds of the hijacking. The next day, the incident received widespread national headlines, and was reported on the CBS Evening News, among other affiliates. There are many full recordings of this particular incident, the one included is the highest quality copy able to be found. The video then cuts out, with Doctor Who resuming as normal. The woman proclaims, "Bend over, bitch!" and hits him repeatedly, followed by Max screaming in agony. What followed was 90 seconds of the Max Headroom impersonator making fun of WGN anchor Chuck Swirsky, Max Headroom's ill-fated "New Coke" advertisements, giving the finger with a rubber extension, as well as mocking Chicago's newspaper, Clutch Cargo, and putting on a glove then claiming his brother has the other one.Īfter this it cuts to Max bending over, bare-buttocked, in front of a woman(?) in old-fashioned attire with a fly-swatter. Two hours later (at roughly 11:15 PM), on PBS member station WTTW, a re-run of the British series Doctor Who's Horror of Fang Rock serial was hijacked with a similar Max Headroom video, only this time the audio was working, and the engineers had no way of getting rid of it.
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