  The VERITAS collaboration has observed the high-frequency-peaked BL Lac
object 1ES 1218+304 using an array of several imaging Cherenkov telescopes
located at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in Southern Arizona. A
gamma-ray signal was detected with high significance for the observations taken
during several months in the 2006-2007 observing season. Here we present the
detection of 1ES 1218+304 in very-high-energy gamma rays.
