Often referred to as “Britain’s Roswell incident”, 3 US servicemen were on patrol and saw strange lights in the forest. Upon investigation they came across a craft giving a detailed description of the craft. One of the men Jim Penniston touched the craft and was knocked out, when he woke up he started receiving data in the form of a binary code.
“It appears that they sent 8 bit ASCII when it had not even been invented yet. In 1980, we were still using a 7 bit ASCII encoding that was developed in 1967. The 8 bit ASCII used in this message was not even proposed until 1983 and adopted finally in 1986. Penniston claims to have written this message down in his journal at the time of the incident, or the day after (12/27) in 1980.”
