August
23
/ 2024
On August 15th, 1977, astronomer Jerry Ehman, working on the SETI project in Ohio, detected for the first and last time (at least officially) a 72-second signal coming from outer space. This event, known as the "Wow! Signal," was monumental and garnered significant attention. SETI (Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence) was established in the late 1970s at NASA’s Ames Research Center and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. The goal was to examine stars and attempt to detect intelligent signals from space. However, NASA ceased involvement in the project about two decades later. During that fateful day in 1977, the "Big Ear" radio telescope at the Ohio State University Radio Observatory detected an ‘intelligent’ signal coming from the direction of
