SETI researchers are not nearly as excited about a radio signal detected in Russia as the major media, which called it "mysterious", "freaky", "alien", and "a possible ET signal from deep space." People who know the drill say there's nothing to get excited about.

Also: The overlap between the ET meme and the "return of the old gods" meme, courtesy of occultists H.P. Lovecraft, Aleister Crowley, Kenneth Grant, and Jack Parsons, founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, now part of NASA.