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Astronomers Revisit the Mysterious Wow! Signal—and Find a Big Surprise [meh]
Gizmodo ^ | August 25, 2025 | Ellyn Lapointe Updated

Posted on 08/26/2025 1:51:28 PM PDT by BenLurkin

In recent years, researchers led by Abel Méndez—lead author of the new study and director of the Planetary Habitability Laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico—have contributed significantly to that evidence through the AWOW project. In August 2024, Méndez and his colleagues published findings that suggest the Wow! Signal stemmed from the sudden brightening of a cold hydrogen cloud due to a transient source of radiation such as a magnetar. These neutron stars have magnetic fields strong enough to excite the atoms in hydrogen clouds and elicit a burst of brightness.

Re-evaluating the Wow! Signal

Now, Méndez’s team has meticulously retrieved and analyzed decades of archival SETI data to re-evaluate the Wow! Signal’s properties and assess that hypothesis. Having access to modern data analysis tools and recent observations was a “game changer” for this study, Méndez told Gizmodo. Such advancements allowed his team to calculate more precise measurements for the Wow! Signal’s location of origin, intensity, and frequency. “In numbers, [these revisions] look small, but they are not small,” he said.

The researchers’ calculation for the signal’s intensity—or flux density—was four times greater than previous estimates, but the revised frequency was most surprising to Méndez. He and his colleagues found it to be 1420.726 MHz—much higher than they anticipated. The findings suggest the Wow! Signal came from a source within our galaxy, moving faster than scientists previously thought.

(Excerpt) Read more at gizmodo.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Miscellaneous; Science; UFO's
KEYWORDS: 6equj5; astronomy; awowproject; fringe; noithadtobealiens; ohsomysteriouso; science; seti; ufo; ufos; wow; wowsignal

1 posted on 08/26/2025 1:51:28 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: SunkenCiv

Thought it was a plane flying over, wasn’t it?


2 posted on 08/26/2025 1:52:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Don’t worry Jill Tartar will be along any second to discredit anyone who says the “WOW” signal is alien.....

Because it didn’t repeat.

Hey Jill, have you ever dialed a wrong number and then have hang up the phone? Did you dial the wrong number twice?

Didn’t think so.


3 posted on 08/26/2025 1:58:08 PM PDT by pacificus
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To: BenLurkin

While re-evaluating the Wow signal several scientist have found evidence of what is referred to as the Dull signal, which seems to completely disprove the Wow phenomena.


4 posted on 08/26/2025 2:10:31 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: pacificus

If I dial a phone number and a “scientist” answers the phone I hang up immediately!


5 posted on 08/26/2025 2:21:04 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: BenLurkin

“Send More Chuck Berry!”


6 posted on 08/26/2025 2:22:06 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: BenLurkin

Giant lizard people exchanging recipes???


7 posted on 08/26/2025 2:34:27 PM PDT by farmguy ( )
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To: farmguy

Let’s take a look at the list of ingredients. Uhmmmm...

Flour, butter
Onion, celery, carrot
1/2 pound human thigh meat

What!


8 posted on 08/26/2025 2:37:15 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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"But I am not really willing to accept your premise, because it may well be that the means of communications they have are of a kind that we do not know how to receive, and that they would not have the means of communicating with sufficiently powerful radio or optical signals. That is something which, technologically, is too difficult for them but they would have some other means we would not recognize." -- Thomas J. Gold, 'Communication with Extraterrestial Intelligence' (Sagan, ed)

9 posted on 08/26/2025 2:38:05 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: BenLurkin
Nope, not a plane. Probably a natural event.
The rest of the wowsignal keyword, sorted:

10 posted on 08/26/2025 2:40:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: BenLurkin

When there is something in the natural universe in space they do not understand and it does not seem random, they assume IT CANNOT BE NATURAL.

Humans are in kindergarten when it comes to understanding the universe and space and would do well to remember that.


11 posted on 08/26/2025 3:03:06 PM PDT by Wuli (uire)
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The rest of the SETI/CETI keywords (minus Folding@Home topics), sorted:

12 posted on 08/26/2025 3:21:55 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: SunkenCiv

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3909456/posts

“Equus” is Latin for “horse.” Is that what was so “wow?”


13 posted on 08/26/2025 3:29:40 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: scrabblehack

Try to rein in your enthusiasm. ;^)


14 posted on 08/26/2025 4:22:35 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: SunkenCiv

OK, you’re being silly.

Do the letters represent numbers? E = 14? It is rare to get a number greater than 5, and these ones were off the charts?


15 posted on 08/26/2025 4:33:03 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: BenLurkin

The SETI project commenced around 1960 and hasn’t yielded anything in 65 years. Probes of the solar system however have discovered structures that are strongly suggestive of extraterrestrial intelligence. Not only strongly suggestive but nearby in our celestial backyard, so to speak.

As far as life elsewhere is concerned, Watson and Crick eventually concluded, because of DNA’s complexity and its information coding, that it came from ‘elsewhere.’

The panspermia theory was also advocated by the noted astronomer Hoyle.


16 posted on 08/26/2025 4:41:56 PM PDT by KamperKen (u)
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To: scrabblehack

Not sure, but those who do radioastronomy for a living do I’m sure. :^)

“The signal has another name: 6EQUJ5. This has been interpreted as a message hidden in the signal, but it really represents how the signal’s intensity varied over time.”

The Wow! Signal Deciphered. It Was Hydrogen All Along.
By Evan Gough - August 20, 2024 at 6:45 PM UTC | Astrobiology
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-wow-signal-deciphered-it-was-hydrogen-all-along


17 posted on 08/26/2025 5:04:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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