"In the unlikely event that an alien civilization receives the message, he said, the response might not be just a friendly greeting." via RT Headline Image: © Getty Images / Colin Anderson Productions pty ltd Oxford researchers are reportedly concerned that the US agency's effort to communicate with extraterrestrials could be dangerous Scientists at the UK's Oxford University have reportedly sounded an alarm over plans by NASA to broadcast location data and other information into space, warning that the effort could have dangerous unintended consequences, including triggering an alien invasion. At issue is the planned "Beacon in the Galaxy" (BITG), a broadcast of data by a NASA-led team of researchers with the aim of greeting "extraterrestrial intelligences." The US space agency wants to beam the signal from the SETI Institute's Allen Telescope array in California and China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST). It would include such information as the