World Contact Day was first declared in March 1953 by an organization called the International Flying Saucer Bureau (IFSB), as a day on which all IFSB members would attempt to send a telepathic message into space. The IFSB theorised that if both telepathy and alien life were real, a large number of people focussing on an identical piece of text may be able to transmit the message through space. IFSB members focused on the message reproduced below on March 15, 1953 – and annually each year since (although it does appear to have fallen off in the last decade or so).
So far, there has been no response from interplanetary space…
