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Professor Brian Cox has admitted BBC officials made ‘panicked phone calls’ to him asking what protocol to follow if aliens contacted them during his Stargazing show
Need to Know: BBC Bosses in Panic Over Brian Cox Alien Contact Experiment
- Professor Brian Cox has revealed BBC bosses went into meltdown when he tried to contact aliens during filming.
- The physicist was working on his show Stargazing with Dara Ó Briain when they decided to fire signals at distant planets for a laugh. But BBC executives didn’t see the funny side and frantically called Cox asking what would happen if extra-terrestrials actually responded.
- “We had a panicked phone call from the BBC going, ‘What if we actually hear something? Because we don’t know what the regulations are,'” Cox revealed on Radio X’s The Chris Moyles Show.
- The worried bosses even tried to stop the experiment altogether. “It was really weird! They go, ‘You can’t do that,'” Cox explained, adding that nobody knew who to contact if aliens made contact.
- Cox joked that “the Vatican” might have been his first port of call if little green men had picked up the phone.
- READ THE FULL STORY: Brian Cox received ‘panicked phone call’ from BBC over possible alien contact
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