In the late summer of 1976—amidst the American Bicentennial, the Viking 1 landing on Mars, and the rise of punk rock—a faint, anomalous signal was detected by a radio observatory in the former Soviet Union. Labeled cryptically in archival logs as “Flacsrar” (likely a Cyrillic-accented acronym: Fluctuation Anomaly, Long-wave Carrier, Shortwave RAdio Ripple ), the data was considered noise. It was almost forgotten.
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