Are we alone 

 in the Universe? 

Are we humans the only intelligent life form?

A number of organisations are researching this vital question, using the most advanced telescopes to scour the skies for signs of unusual activity that could indicate civilisations such as our own, or indeed considerably more advanced than ourselves.

This site is here to save you from ploughing through the dross and take you straight to the pick of the sites on the SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) theme:

Contents

1. Telescopes
2. University Sites
3. Institutional SETI sites
4. Major NGO SETI sites
5. National & Regional SETI sites
6. SETI news & discussion
7. Personal & SETI clubs
8. Software downloads

1. Telescopes

• Arecibo Observatory, the source of data for SETI@home, at the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, Puerto Rico.
• The world-famous Jodrell Bank Observatory, at The University of Manchester, UK.

• Big Ear Radio Observatory, run by Ohio State University, USA.
• Joddrell Bank SETI Research is an information site on the 76-metre radio-telescope and the major role it is playing in the search for alien life.

2. University Sites

• Big Ear Radio Observatory, run by Ohio State University, USA.
• San Francisco State University's Planet Search Project.
• Southern SERENDIP , Western Sydney University.

• The world-famous Jodrell Bank Observatory, at The University of Manchester, UK.
• SETI Australia Centre, Western Sydney University, Macarthur.

3. Institutional SETI sites

• The Harvard/Smithsonian Optical SETI Project, Harvard University and Oak Ridge Observatory.
• the SETI@home project's home institution, the Berkeley's Space Science Laboratory.
• Australia's SETI R&D Institute, at www.seti.org.au, with interesting news, information, astronomy software available for download.

• The Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany.
• The SETI Institute Online - one of the leading research bodies into extra-terrestrial life. The site contains scientific news, and latest information on missions and projects.
• The main SETI@home (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence At Home) project, at Www.setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu, run by the University of California at Berkeley. Download telescope data and the screensaver software to analyse it during your computer's idle hours.

4. Major NGO SETI sites

• The Columbus Optical SETI project, Bexley, Ohio.
• More on optical SETI at the Optical SETI net.
• The Planetary Society supported a number of SETI projects including BETA, META II, SERENDIP IV, and Optical SETI.
• Sky & Telescope magazine has a good number of articles including "SETI Searches Today," the only place on the web giving a detailed description/comparison of all the current SETI projects worldwide. Frequently updated.

• Find out about the regular Optical SETI conferences.
• Photonstar, mainly about laser array interferometry observatories.
• The SETI League# is a membership organization of enthusiasts promoting private search on SETI around the world.

5. National & Regional SETI sites

• Alien Brotherhood - "We are an organization of likeminded individuals seeking to uncover the truth about life on other planets. Our members act as field agents for the brotherhood, following up on reports of sightings. We also belong to SETI and help to analyse data from the radio observatories around the world."
• SETI Team Belgium
• SETI Team Portugal
• SETI@Deutschland
• SETI@home Italy Research Group
• SETI@Nottingham

• Baha'i SETI
• Brazil's SETI Team
• Canarias SETI@home Team
• The German SETI "HOPE" Group
• Knights Who Say Ni! SETI Team
• SETI at Hamburg
• SETI Hungary
• SETI Switzerland
• SETI Team Germany
• Seti-Quebec
• SETI@Estonia
• SETI@Netherlands

6. SETI news & discussion

• Bitenbyte SETI is a newsgroup compilation site with selected postings from three SETI newsgroups, alt.sci.seti, sci.astro.seti and alt.info-science.seti.
• The popular Space Daily 'zine for SETI enthusiasts with news, features and reviews.
• The Yahoo SETI forum is probably the best discussion forum on SETI and related matters.

• Exoscience news, for mainstream scientific content on the search for alien intelligence.
• Sky & Telescope magazine has a good number of articles including "SETI Searches Today," the only place on the web giving a detailed description/comparison of all the current SETI projects worldwide. Frequently updated.

7. Personal & SETI clubs

• Are you an ET? Welcome to Earth!
• Datania SETI Forum
• Let's Kick Some Alien Butt Team
• SkzDaLimit SETI Search Group
• Team Art Bell
• Team Wild & Woolly

• Da Boyz in Da Hood Team
• Jupiter Crash SETI@home Team
• seti@lboro.ac.uk Statistics
• Team Ars Technica Lamb Chop
• Team Erster Kontakt (First Contact)
• Trust No One

8. Software downloads

• Patch Free Processing
• If you're analysing SETI data, this free Starmap utility will show you just which bit of the sky the "work units" you are working on originate. 297K (short) download.

• SETI@home Screensaver Optimizations.