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The makeshift space monitoring station is believed to have received transmissions from clandestine cosmonauts.
During the 1960's a number of amateur radio enthusiasts began trying to hear the unguarded transmissions from the brave ships being sent into space, but some believe that the two brothers who established the Torre Bert Listening Station in Italy stumbled upon a conspiracy involving who was truly the first man in space. Achille and Giovanni Batista Judica Cordiglia built their makeshift listening station in a disused German bunker which gave the site its name. Using improvised and found parts, they created an independent monitoring station that could pick up both Russian and American satellite signals. In the end, utilizing around 21 antennas, they were famously able to listen to such well-known probes as Sputnik 2 and Explorer 1, but if rumors are to be believed they also listened in on some things they shouldn't have.
