# 1745: "The Wow! Signal"

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Podcast: [Interesting Things with JC](https://stenobird.com/podcast/interesting-things-with-jc-4639155)
Published: 2026-08-15T07:00:24+00:00
Episode link: https://jimconnors.net/interesting-things-with-jc/2026/8/15/1745-the-wow-signal
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## Resource

Interesting Things with JC #1745: "The Wow! Signal" – A radio telescope in Ohio detected a powerful narrowband signal from the direction of Sagittarius for 72 seconds, matching the rise and fall expected from a fixed source in the sky. The signal vanished before the telescope’s second beam crossed the same region, and nearly fifty years of searches have never detected it again.

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