THE WOW SIGNAL: 72 SECONDS FROM SAGITTARIUS
Episode 18 | History's Mysteries — Unexplained Events
In this Mystery episode we focus on the Wow Signal — the 72-second radio transmission received by a telescope in Ohio on August 15th, 1977, that matched every predicted characteristic of an extraterrestrial transmission and has never been detected again.
This episode covers Jerry Ehman's discovery, why the signal was so extraordinary, the explanations that didn't hold up, and the August 2025 analysis that found the signal was even stronger than originally believed and proposed a magnetar-hydrogen cloud superradiance event as the most…
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