The alien spotters

摘要

The New Jersey headquarters of the SETI League can be found off an anonymous highway lined with used car lots and seedy motels. It occupies a dull, single-storey block opposite the Gethsemane Cemetery and next to Phil's Auto Repairs, where you can pick up a second-hand Buick for under $2000. But the unprepossessing building and dubious neighbourhood belie what goes on here. For the SETI League has one foot in New Jersey and the other foot on Alpha Centauri.