DARPA hands over space tracking telescope to the US Air Force. / by Richard

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has transferred operations of a telescope designed to track objects in Earth orbit to the U.S. Air Force, ahead of a move of that telescope to Australia. Read more

Does this mean that Lt. Ripley will share all info upon arriving at LV-426? Or is it because Stephen Hawking's alien-hunting project is investigating strange signals from 234 stars since two days?

We consider several possibilities, such as rotational transitions in molecules, rapid pulsations, Fourier transform of spectral lines and signals generated by Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
— Ermanno F. Borra

The $100million Breakthrough Listen project, backed by Mark Zuckerberg and Stephen Hawking, said: “It is too early to unequivocally attribute these purported signals to the activities of extraterrestrial civilisations.