{"id":295059,"date":"2025-10-03T00:06:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=52d749b3110e950d9b62cd7b9e878362"},"modified":"2025-10-03T00:06:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T14:06:05","slug":"did-3i-atlas-spark-the-1977-wow-signal-same-region-just-days-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=295059","title":{"rendered":"Did 3I\/ATLAS spark the 1977 &#8216;Wow Signal&#8217;? Same region, just days apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard astronomer and alien hunter Avi Loeb has floated a bold new idea about the legendary \u201cWow Signal.\u201d In a<a href=\"https:\/\/avi-loeb.medium.com\/was-the-wow-signal-emitted-from-3i-atlas-d18d4f0d1f1e\" > recent blog post<\/a>, he suggested that the interstellar object 3I\/ATLAS, now passing through our solar system, might have been the source of the mysterious radio burst picked up by Ohio State\u2019s Big Ear telescope on August 15, 1977&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjT_h3zq3KqJmKmsPv8lx4EIxBPEAGBcDk60svRZngbm722T6EYXueQ2ddafh20DH2rotZFgZJXVnrUPlg2OaRBYfyeAU_jQEY2IN5yGGDMMwGBHa6yg5bF4qy1TZnu87i2zed-q-NWc1GXd88yFcIEDbVaBOI_hlgP9iAzeNZYhIIrRz9L5ms09gf1AN7q\/s640\/31atlas%20WoW%20signal.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"360\" data-original-width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjT_h3zq3KqJmKmsPv8lx4EIxBPEAGBcDk60svRZngbm722T6EYXueQ2ddafh20DH2rotZFgZJXVnrUPlg2OaRBYfyeAU_jQEY2IN5yGGDMMwGBHa6yg5bF4qy1TZnu87i2zed-q-NWc1GXd88yFcIEDbVaBOI_hlgP9iAzeNZYhIIrRz9L5ms09gf1AN7q\/w640-h360\/31atlas%20WoW%20signal.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>The Wow Signal was recorded at Right Ascension (RA)=19h25m=291 degrees and Declination (Dec)=-27 degrees.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>At nearly the same time, on August 12, 1977, 3I\/ATLAS was about 600 astronomical units (AU) from Earth, some 600 times the Earth\u2013Sun distance, or roughly a 3-day light-travel time away. Its position then was RA 19h40m (295\u00b0degrees), Dec -19 degrees.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Here\u2019s the intriguing part: just three days before the signal was detected, ATLAS had been moving through nearly the same patch of space. The separation was only about 4 degree in RA and 8 degree in Dec, an alignment chance of just 0.6%.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>If the signal really came from 31\/ATLAS, its transmitter would have needed the power of a nuclear reactor, beaming directly on the 1420 MHz hydrogen line, the frequency often dubbed the \u201ccosmic calling card.\u201d&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>While it may seem far-fetched that 3I\/ATLAS could have sent the Wow Signal, the object\u2019s unusual behavior so far means nothing can be completely ruled out. Perhaps it\u2019s worth scanning 3I\/ATLAS for radio emissions.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In time, we\u2019re likely to learn much more about whether 3I\/ATLAS is simply an odd interstellar comet or something far more advanced which could catch us off guard.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard astronomer and alien hunter Avi Loeb has floated a bold new idea about the legendary \u201cWow Signal.\u201d In a recent blog post, he suggested that the interstellar object 3I\/ATLAS, now passing through our solar system, might have been the source of th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17578,220,4,221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-31-atlas","category-mystery","category-ufo","category-unexplained"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=295059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295060,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295059\/revisions\/295060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}