The ‘Wow!’ signal remains a mystery
1 The famous ‘Wow!’ signal was discovered by Dr Jerry R. Ehman on 15 August 1977 using Ohio State University’s radio telescope, nicknamed ‘Big Ear’.
The signal came from the Sagittarius constellation and had some of the characteristics that SETI researchers would expect from a signal with an extraterrestrial source, including a long duration (72 seconds) and being concentrated in a narrow frequency range.
Ehman was
