World Contact Day was first declared in March 1953 by an organization called the ''International Flying Saucer Bureau'' (IFSB), as a day on which all IFSB members would attempt to send a telepathic message into space. The IFSB voted to hold such a day in 1953, theorising that if both

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and alien life were real, a large number of people focussing on an identical piece of text may be able to transmit the message through space. IFSB members focused on the following message during 1953: ' The 1953 celebration is referenced in the song "

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", created in 1976 by

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and later covered by The Carpenters. On the event's 60th anniversary in 2013, World Contact Day was extended to a whole week.

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