 The senior astronomer of the SETI Institute, Seth Shostak, stated that confirmation by another telescope is required.Astronomer Nicholas Suntzeff of Texas A&M University stated that the signal is in a military frequency band, and that it could have been a satellite downlink, implying that some such systems may be kept secret and therefore would be unknown to SETI scientists.SETI and METI studies followed with the Allen Telescope Array and the Boquete Optical SETI Observatory.