A、They told the newspaper about the matter. B、They told the public about the matter. C、They kept it secret. D、They told a few pe

In 1967 , a group of scientists noticed strange radio signals from space. When the scientists first heard them, they did not tell the newspapers anything about the matter, in case the public were frightened. People are always afraid of strange things from space and even the scientists could not understand what these signals were.
   At first, some of the scientists suggested that the signals were coming from intelligent beings on another planet. They thought that these beings were trying to contact people on the earth, or intelligent beings on other planets. However, since there was no star in that part of the sky, there could not be a planet either. The scientists studied the signal carefully, and tried to find others like them. Since that time, the scientists have found answers to some of their questions. They have discovered that the signals came from "pulsar" , and they have found at least sixty other pulsars, like the first one.
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16. What did a group of scientists do when they noticed strange radio signals from space?
17. What did the scientists suggest at first?