John Was Trying To Contact Aliens

John Was Trying To Contact Aliens tells the touching story of John Shepherd’s lifelong personal search for alien life among the cosmos. Shepherd spent the entirety of his adult life developing state-of-the-art electronic consoles of homemade transmitters and accelerators for blasting signals deep into space. Broadcasting from his remote cottage home in northern Michigan, Shepherd hosted a radio show of jazz, early electronic, Afrobeat, and other outsider music sourced from his corner of the universe sent out millions of miles into space ever hopeful for extraterrestrial listeners on the other end of the wave.

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