Today we are talking about something that might be aliens. Like, this is considered by a lot of people to maybe be the best evidence of exterrestrial life. Anyway, on this day in 1977 at Ohio State University, a strong radio signal was picked up from deep space. The fact the signal was detected wasn't discovered until a few days later when Jerry R. Ehman, a professor at the school at the time, actually looked over the radio log, and noticed the abnormality in his data.
He marked the data with an exclamation of "Wow!" And to this day we don't really know what it was. We know the signal came from the direction of the Sagittarius constellation, and it's not impossible that one of the stars in that area has life. The thing is, we don't know what it could be, but it was definitely something. Even if it wasn't intelligent life, we don't know anything in space that could send a signal like that naturally, but that doesn't mean signals like that couldn't be produced naturally by a process we don't know yet. Whatever the Wow! signal was, a lot of people on this planet are waiting for some sort of follow up, and hey, who knows, it could arrive tomorrow.
[CONTRIBUTOR’S NOTE: I too would go “Wow!” upon discovering such a unique and potentially alien-adjacent signal, so I appreciate Dr. Ehman’s contributions here.]
Wow, pretty cool. So what are the chances the signal was like a star making a weird fart or something