The Most Outrageous U.S. Conspiracy Theories

Extraterrestrial Signal

On August 15, 1977, astronomer Jerry Ehman recorded a radio signal using the Big Ear telescope at Ohio State University. The sound that he heard was so loud that he quite literally wrote down, "Wow!" on the printout. The sound lasted for 72 seconds.

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