>>16897978This appears to be a mistranslation caused by somebody attempting to write a German article based on this English article (
http://www.universetoday.com/122971/seti-institute-undertakes-search-for-alien-signal-from-kepler-star-kic-8462852/) and then machine-translating it back to English.
The original source contains no reference to SETI recieving any kind of weird periodic signal - the weird periodic signal referenced is the dips in the star's light flux that started all this interest in the first place.
tl;dr no new information here, just the Internet News Telephone Game.
