by Jack
On August 15th, 1977, we received a clear 37 second signal from outer space that could not have been made in nature. Professor Jerry Ehman, from Franklin University in Columbus, Ohio was monitoring the SETI readings that night and he circled the coded signal for later reference and added a single comment in the margins” “Wow!”
The signal Prof. Ehman recorded entered SETI lore as the “Wow!” signal.
Unfortunately, despite a concerted search of the quadrant the signal is believed to have originated, we’ve not heard a similar signal since.
As one astronomer put it, “It is mathematically impossible for there not to be an abundance of highly evolved animal worlds, in raw numbers, in our galaxy of 200 to 300 billion stars, a sizeable percentage of which our space science is finding to have planetary systems which in turn likely have moon systems. Logically, many of these worlds would be older and younger than and near in age to our star and planet and will have life forms, of all inconceivable and conceivable kinds, that are more and less advanced than our species and that also will be of commensurate intelligence as the ranges of individual intelligence of our species. Some of these worlds may have co-existing different species with both overlapping and radically different advanced abilities or intelligences. Heck, there may be long-lived and highly evolved subsurface life on Mars, the asteroid-belt dwarf planet Ceres, the Jovian moon Europa or the moons Enceladus or Titan of Saturn.”