Trevor Collins

But as I was kind of saying, now has never been a better time to join the task force at redwebpod.com because we have a couple more ghost hunts.

One that we did at the beginning of this month.

Some other stretch goals coming out, red web radio, video essay, and then a red web on the road.

All of these things were from last year's five-year stream, which means we have extra bonus materials, deleted scenes, uncut camera angles, sneak peeks at those things as they're coming out, all of this stuff.

So above and beyond the normal expectations, and it is truly the best way to support us.

It keeps our lights on and allows us to continue diving into new and unexplored mysteries every single week.

So thank you all so much in advance.

Go head over there.

But.

Without further ado, Fredo, I think I need to take you back to 1977.

It's time to figure out, were we contacted intentionally or otherwise by aliens?

The wow signal, as I've kind of hinted, it refers to a strong narrow band radio signal that was detected on August 15th, 1977.

To be specific, this particular signal was detected at 1420 megahertz.

So 1420 megahertz.

and we'll talk more about that specific radio frequency as we move into the investigation but it's important to note that it was very specifically on that band because of course the radio bandwidth is all over the place you kind of know it casually as you move through radio stations those i think are kilohertz but suffice to say you you passively know about these things

Now, the signal itself was recorded at Ohio State University by their telescope with the apt name Big Ear, essentially just one honking ear listening up to space.

Yep.

And radio telescopes are used to detect and map radio waves that are emitted by celestial objects.

This allows scientists to study things that we can't see with the human eye.

Now, if you're going to forgive me a few moments here of extrapolating out some data and geeking out, I have an image for you provided by NASA.