That very much sounds like those aliens from that book by Carl Sagan made into a movie starring Jodie Foster, "Contact". In the book and movie they needed the V

That very much sounds like those aliens from that book by Carl Sagan made into a movie starring Jodie Foster, "Contact". In the book and movie they needed the VLA radio telescope to pick up the signal but modern technology has made it possible for an enlarged Apollo clone to receive it on the entertainment system. If you don't understand it just watch the movie and listen to the signal picked up from the region around the star Vega, then you will understand.