“Our mission is to enable anyone to meet enable to meet and socialize with new people,” says Greg Tseng, the CEO of Tagged.com. “We believe that aliens should also be able to meet new people.”
With that in mind, Tagged set up what they call an AAPI: Alien Application Program Interface, which allows radio signals coming in from space to communicate with their website and easily set up accounts. They sent out their own radio signals into the universe to advertise it.
Within a month, Tagged users were reporting messages in what appeared to a foreign language along with pictures of strange beings.
So far, no one was able to identify the language. “The letters are in our standard English alphabet, but the words and patterns have very little similarity to any of our human languages,” said Jason, the Tagged engineer who stepped up to try to decipher the mysterious messages. “We quickly hired an expert linguist, but there is still a lot of guessing involved.”
The pictures are being reviewed by experts, and Tagged is planning on releasing them if they are deemed to be authentic.
“There is still a lot of research to be done,” said Tseng. “But we believe that we have taken the first step in a very important area of inter-planet understanding and exploration.”
