The discovery of radio waves with extraterretial origins occured in 1933. A young Bell Telephone engineer was tasked to find the source of interference that had been plaguing shortwave trans-atlantic radio telephone calls. He built a large directional receiving antenna and started searching for the source of the noise. He soon discovered that the noise came from a particular place in the sky that rose 4 minutes earlier each day. It did not take him long the realize that the source of the noise was near the center of the milky way. This discover would eventually earn the young engineer a share of a Nobel prize.