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The Wow! Signal

In 1977, a radio telescope caught a signal so strange an astronomer circled it and wrote "Wow!" in the margin — it's never repeated since.

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The Nuremberg Celestial Phenomenon of 1561

Hundreds of years before anyone had the word "UFO," a German city witnessed a sky full of strange shapes fighting each other at dawn — and a contemporary artist made a printed woodcut of it that still survives today.

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