1977 Radio Signal From Space
In 1977 we received a radio signal from space that lasted 72 seconds.
1977 radio signal from space. Signal was a strong narrowband radio signal received on august 15 1977 by ohio state university s big ear radio telescope in the united states then used to support the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Esa hubble nasa l. The telescope was scanning the stars searching for possible signals from alien civilizations as.
To this day we still don t know where it came from. 15 1977 when it was picked up by the big ear radio telescope at the ohio. Now you have to know that this was all the rage at the time and every magazine rack in the country had at least one or two issues of something regarding ufos crop circles and the bermuda triangle.
He was so impressed by the result tha. Signal s name comes from just how striking and strange it was. Recorded in 1977 an anomalously powerful 72 second radio signal that burst from the direction of the constellation sagittarius has puzzled astronomers until now according to new information set to be published by antonio paris a professor with st.
Ehman discovered the anomaly a few days later while reviewing the recorded data. The radio signal appeared on the night of aug. It is perhaps the most famous message to have been detected in the search for alien life but the 40 year old mystery of a powerful radio signal from outer.
On august 15th 1977 a radio telescope located at ohio state university detected something strange. The 72 second mysterious radio signal from space back in 1977 ohio state university was using their big ear radio telescope for the search for intelligent life out in the universe.