If you thought the Lincolnshire Poacher was weird, the story of UVB-76 is even weirder. The common assumption is that it was some sort of communication between British intelligence and agents in the field, but there's never been any official confirmation, so it still qualifies as unidentified. According to Dutch cryptology historian Dirk Rijmenants, the Lincolnshire Poacher appeared during the 1970s and aired daily until 2008, when it mysteriously disappeared. After about 10 minutes of music, a female voice with an English accent would read what appeared to be a coded message. One of the strangest was "The Lincolnshire Poacher," which used a snippet of an English folk song of that name.
Listeners gave them amusing names, such as "Nancy Adam Susan," "The Swedish Rhapsody" or "The Gong Station." Listeners assumed they were signals for secret messages to spies. ĭuring the Cold War from the 1950s to the 1980s, shortwave radio enthusiasts across the world began noticing weird broadcasts that would often start with music or the sound of beeps, which would be followed by even more strangeness - the voice of a woman counting in German, for example, or a child's voice reciting letters from the alphabet in English. Was the Wow! signal sent by a distant civilization with an extremely powerful transmitter, or just some natural anomaly? Decades later, we still don't know. Ehman would scan these printouts every day.) But the signal only lasted 72 seconds, and more than 100 subsequent studies of that same region of sky failed to turn up anything unusual. (This was represented by the "U" in the printout of electromagnetic frequencies from the telescope. Īt Ohio State University's now-defunct Big Ear radio telescope observatory, which at the time was searching for such signals, a volunteer named Jerry Ehman noticed a signal that was extremely powerful - 30 times louder than the typical ambient noise of deep space - and extremely close to 1,420 megahertz, the frequency of hydrogen. The Ohio State University Radio Observatory and the North American AstroPhysical Observatoryīack in 1977, just a few months before director Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" was released, real-life scientists detected what they at least initially believed was a radio message sent by distant extraterrestrials.
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