On 1 October 1982, Congress approved a budget line which reinstated funding of NASA’s attempts to detect extraterrestrial radio signals.

 

 

 

 

During 1983, the “SETI Science Working Group Report” was edited by Frank Drake, John Wolfe and Charles Seeger

 

 

 

During 1983, an article in the “National Enquirer” alleges that Jackie Gleason claimed to have been shown alien bodies by President Nixon following a charity golf tournament run by Gleason (on 19 February 1973).

 

 

 

 

Durinh April 1983, the first “Contact Conference” organised by Jim Funaro to encourage interdisciplinary speculation about what lies ahead as we enter the space age. The main event was a Cultures Of The Imagination (“COTI”) experiment, in which participants design an integrated world, alien and its way of life, and simulate contact with a future human society.