15 august 1977 The Big Ear telescope at ohio state university receives what is known as the Wow! signal from deep space- a 72 second long strong narrow band radio signal. we are not alone. perhaps. the signal has never been detected again . More than three decades later, the Wow Signal, as it has come to be known to SETI researchers, remains both the first and best potential evidence of communication from extraterrestrials, and one of the most perplexing mysteries in science. Over the years, Ehman and colleagues worked to rule out other explanations—such as satellites, aircraft or ground-based transmitters on Earth. But by the same token, researchers have yet to prove that it actually is message from space. “It’s an open question.” Ehman told the Columbus Dispatch in 2010. Or as the late science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke once put it in a 1997 interview with New Scientist magazine, “God only knows what it was.” channel.nationalgeographic/channel/chasing-ufos/articles/what-is-the-wow-signal/
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