![]() September 29th, 1977: Carl Sagan appears on The Tonight Show (NBC-TV) with host Johnny Carson, discussing the importance of "first contact" in Los Angeles, California. The Eagle is towed to Saint John, Newfoundland where it will begin its rebuild at the Saint John Shipbuilding facilities. September 27th, 1977: Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau is coerced by Robert Stanfield and Ed Broadbent to purchase the decommissioned fleet carrier HMS Eagle (R05) from the British government. The show stars Cliff Robertson, Jason Robbards, and Robert Vaughn as fictional versions of Nixon, Halderman, and the CIA Director. Also on this day, Following promising ratings the miniseries Washington Behind Closed Doors gets additional episodes to finish the shows fictionalized version of Watergate and Nixon's Downfall. "Spaceship Ruthy"), Unarian Academy of Sciences, appears on The Tonight Show (NBC-TV), telling Johnny Carson to expect alien landings "before the end of the year. September 11th, 1977: Ruth Norman (a.k.a. September 3rd, 1977: All Canadian road signs are converted to metric units. I can but hope there the withering away of the State has already been accomplished".Īugust 30th, 1977: Mayor Abraham Beame is shot and killed by Aron Kay at the Cooper Union in New York City, New York, sending shockwaves nationwide. ![]() "Īugust 27th 1977: Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev says in a speech "It is clear that we are not alone in this universe, but there are fellow comrades elsewhere who like all sapient species must still abide by Karl Marx's great insights. Īugust 21st, 1977: Senator Bob Dole (R-KS) and William Proxmire (D-WI) demand an investigation into the "WOW! signal".Īugust 25th, 1977: A Senate Committee is formed to investigate the "WOW! signal".Īugust 26th, 1977: Moral Majority leader Jerry Falwell states during a rally in Virginia Beach, Virginia,"Without Divine interference we are alone in the universe and without Christ we are-and should be-terrified. "Īugust 20th, 1977: Although conceived and planned since the late 1960s, the Voyager 2 launch gains one of its highest television ratings for NASA, with the launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida. ![]() I say not a penny for this nutty fantasy. Īugust 18th, 1977: Senator William Proxmire (D-WI) voices his skepticism, stating about the president's speech, "It's the best argument yet for chopping NASA's funding to the bone. "Īugust 16th, 1977: Singer Elvis Presley proclaims that the signal is "divine providence", running onto his lawn and going into prayer at Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee. Īugust 16th, 1977: President Jimmy Carter, after receiving a briefing by his scientific advisors announces the radio signal to the world as a "profound discovery, which serves notice that we are not the sole heirs of creation. The message was detected in the Sagitarius Constellation, roughly 122 light-years from Earth, making any conversation or exchange of information impossible, but the effect was clear, humanity was no longer the sentient life form in the universe. It lasted for the full 72-second duration that Big Ear observed it, but was never detected again. ![]() The signal bore all of the hallmarks of potential non-terrestrial and non-Solar System origin. Ehman on August 15th, 1977, while working on a SETI project at the Big Ear radio telescope of Ohio State University then located at Ohio Wesleyan University's Perkins Observatory, Delaware, Ohio. What if Wow Signal is confirmed to be of extraterrestrial origin?Īugust 15th, 1977: Dr. ![]()
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