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The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute has announced that due to lack of funding, the Alien Project has been closed. The institute is a non-profit making organization which is involved in investigating claims that there is life outside space.
The organization in a bid to prove the existence of aliens installed the Allen Telescope Array. The organization’s website states that the institute was formed in 1984. The institute is made up of three institutes - the Center for SETI Research, the Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe and the Center for Education and Public Outreach.
The institute’s staff members are made up of scientists, educators and low level staff members. With a current workforce of 150, the institute mainly gets its funding from organizations like NASA, National Science Foundation, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Department of Energy, International Astronomical Union, National Science Foundation, Paul G. Allen Foundation, Universities Space Research Association and Foundation for Microbiology.
The abandoned project used radio telescopes to track communications outside of the planet. The project was named Allen Telescope Array(ATA) and it did cost the organization $50 million to put in place. Dwindling funding forced the institute to shut the project down.
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