On October 21, 2004, the NSA approved for release to the public a portion of their NSA Journal Vol. XIV No. 1.

This is a report of a presentation given to the NSA by Dr. Howard Campaigne ( Dr. Campaigne is one of the top cryptologists on the planet with years and years of service to Naval Security Group, Army Security Agency) regarding the decoding of extraterrestrial messages that had been received “from outer space”.

Apparently, these messages had actually been received via the Sputnik satellite, but no one had any idea how to decode them at the time.

At some time, unspecified in the document, Dr. Howard Campaigne and some other NSA super mathematicians in the crypto department had been given the task of decoding the messages. There were a total of 29 messages to be decoded.

Full article/source: Truth Behind The Scenes