About Us

I heard the signal first in 1990.

Long before congressional hearings, before Grusch under oath, before the Nimitz footage went public, five of us were in Studio B at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley recording an album called The Confident Rat. The band was called Ignorance. I played lead guitar. The producer was Jon Cuniberti, who turned out to be a serious UFO enthusiast; the kind who traded bootleg photos and audio cassettes with other researchers. Back in the late 1980s and early 90s, that was how this community shared material before the internet existed.

One afternoon Cuniberti layered something into the first fifty-five seconds of a track called Momma Hocus. Purported Billy Meier UFO beamship audio. He'd been sitting on the recording which was traded on the UFO underground for a while, waiting for the right project. The photographs from the Meier case have long been discredited. The audio, though, was another matter, and at the time it was still being analysed by sound engineers who couldn't explain what they were hearing. It was the fourth song on the album released on Metal Blade Records in early 1991.

I was twenty-two and Cuniberti had played us a bunch of Ufology videos in the studio in our time off to get us locked into the subject. It took me another thirty years to come full-circle on the subject: an interest in the phenomenon that never really left, and eventually a conviction that the subject deserved to be taken seriously by the people making things around it.

Cosmic Signal Co is what came out of that conviction.

Apparel for people already paying attention.

The community around this subject has spent decades being talked down to. Joke-shop alien merch, little green men, tinfoil hats. Meanwhile the actual conversation moved on. Fravor testified. Grusch went under oath. The Nimitz Tic Tac footage became public record. The vocabulary shifted from UFO to UAP because the evidence demanded it, not because someone rebranded it for public relations.

The people following that shift deserved apparel that reflected how seriously they take it. That's the whole idea. Every design is built for the person who already knows the signal is real, and who'd rather wear something considered than something ironic.

How this actually works.

I run Cosmic Signal Co as a solo operation from Stockholm. Every design starts here. Print partners across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and South America produce and ship as close to you as possible, which keeps delivery fast and the carbon footprint smaller than centralised fulfilment would. Nothing is warehoused. Every shirt is made when you order it.

If you're new to the subject, welcome. If you've been watching the skies since before it was respectable, you already know why this exists.

Stephen
Founder, Cosmic Signal Co

Apparel for the Already Convinced