Southern Television Broadcast Interruption

Date: November 26, 1977 • Location: Fleet, United Kingdom

A speaker claiming to represent the "Intergalactic Association" interrupted a broadcast of Southern Television in South East England.

The Southern Television broadcast interruption was a broadcast signal intrusion, or pirate broadcast, that occurred on 26 November 1977 in parts of southern England in the United Kingdom. The audio of a Southern Television broadcast was replaced by a voice claiming to represent the "Ashtar Galactic Command", delivering a message instructing humanity to abandon its weapons and live in peace with one another so it could participate in a "future awakening" and "achieve a higher state of evolution". After five and a half minutes, the broadcast returned to its scheduled programme, the 1947 Looney Tunes cartoon Goofy Gophers.