Does anyone know anything about the 'WOW' signal that SETI once detected?

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I'd try www.seti.org for the best information. It was called 'Wow!' because that is what was written in the margin of the computer printout which can be seen here: The 'sequence' was '6EQUJS' where the rest of the page was filled with 1's, 2's,3's etc.. http://www.bigear.org/wow.htm As he had done a thousand times, Jerry Ehman glanced over the Big Ear's computer printouts, not really expecting to find anything unusual. But what Ehman saw on that Aug. 15, 1977 - and his startled reaction - would be recorded in radio astronomy textbooks and discussed by researchers to this day. The Columbus man saw a signal so strong that it catapulted the Big Ear's recording device off the chart. An excited Ehman scribbled 'Wow!' on the printout, a tag that is indelibly linked to the recording. 'I mean, without thinking, I wrote 'Wow!' ' Ehman recalls. 'It was the most significant thing we had seen.' Could it be man's first contact with extraterrestrial intelligence? Ohio State University researchers weren't sure. They trained the massive scope on that part of the sky for the next month, and have returned periodically since. The signal hasn't been recorded again. And although many point to it as a possible extraterrestrial intelligence sighting, Ehman remains less convinced. Jan 12 03, 11:26 PM

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