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The original was posted on /r/highstrangeness by /u/Better-Waltz-2026 on 2026-06-21 13:28:12+00:00.

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Disclaimer: I am posting this purely for fun, open-minded speculation. I don't know if the TV broadcast was a hoax, and I am not claiming these events are physically linked. I just found the matching 1977 timeline fascinating and wanted to see if anyone else has noticed this connection before. It gets wilder I've found more coincidences that I just had to add! Check out the updates below!

Hi everyone!

If you can suspend your disbelief for this read, it’s a wild ride! 😅

Just ran across that weird 1977 television transmission hijack and immediately remembered the Wow! signal happened that exact same year. I started digging around to see if anyone has looked into this connection before. Honestly, it sounds crazy, but I thought it would be great for some fun speculation on this sub. Maybe it's just a hoax, but you have to admit the timing is mysterious and compelling.

Note: Pay close attention to the 3 additional updates! The second message has been updated. It is the exact same message, just told a different way!

1. The Wow! Signal (August 15, 1977)

The Wow! signal is honestly wild. It was this crazy narrow band radio signal from space that lasted 72 seconds. An astronomer found it a few days later on a computer printout, and because it looked so much like a real alien signal, he circled the sequence "6EQUJ5" and just wrote Wow! in red ink. Scientists have spent decades trying to track it down again, but it just vanished into thin air.

2. The Southern Television Hijack (November 26, 1977)

The TV hijack side of this is just as bizarre. In late 1977, someone managed to override a live news broadcast in the UK for about six minutes. Instead of some chaotic prank, this calm, creepy voice calling itself Vrillon basically told humanity to stop fighting and start evolving. The crazy part is how they managed to bypass regional transmitters to pull it off, and the identity of the prankster or perpetrator is still a total mystery.

Full message: This is the voice of Vrillon, a representative of the Ashtar Galactic Command, speaking to you. For many years you have seen us as lights in the skies. We speak to you now in peace and wisdom as we have done to your brothers and sisters all over this, your planet Earth. We come to warn you of the destiny of your race and your world so that you may communicate to your fellow beings the course you must take to avoid the disaster which threatens your world, and the beings on our worlds around you. This is in order that you may share in the great awakening, as the planet passes into the New Age of Aquarius. The New Age can be a time of great peace and evolution for your race, but only if your rulers are made aware of the evil forces that can overshadow their judgments. Be still now and listen, for your chance may not come again. All your weapons of evil must be removed. The time for conflict is now past and the race of which you are a part may proceed to the higher stages of its evolution if you show yourselves worthy to do this. You have but a short time to learn to live together in peace and goodwill. Small groups all over the planet are learning this, and exist to pass on the light of the dawning New Age to you all. You are free to accept or reject their teachings, but only those who learn to live in peace will pass to the higher realms of spiritual evolution. Hear now the voice of Vrillon, a representative of the Ashtar Galactic Command, speaking to you. Be aware also that there are many false prophets and guides operating in your world. They will suck your energy from you – the energy you call money and will put it to evil ends and give you worthless dross in return. Your inner divine self will protect you from this. You must learn to be sensitive to the voice within that can tell you what is truth, and what is confusion, chaos and untruth. Learn to listen to the voice of truth which is within you and you will lead yourselves onto the path of evolution. This is our message to our dear friends. We have watched you growing for many years as you too have watched our lights in your skies. You know now that we are here, and that there are more beings on and around your Earth than your scientists admit. We are deeply concerned about you and your path towards the light and will do all we can to help you. Have no fear, seek only to know yourselves, and live in harmony with the ways of your planet Earth. We of the Ashtar Galactic Command thank you for your attention. We are now leaving the plane of your existence. May you be blessed by the supreme love and truth of the cosmos.

Source: Message from Vrillion of the Ashtar Galactic Command - Forewarning

A Strange Coincidence?

Looking back at the timeline, it’s just such a bizarre coincidence that both of these things happened barely three months apart in the exact same year. In a single four month window in late 1977, we got a scientifically recorded signal from deep space AND a highly sophisticated TV hijacking delivering a literal cosmic message. Whether you think they’re connected or just separate anomalies, the timing alone is a really wild historical curiosity.

The whole thing is just so weird that I thought it’d be a fun topic to drop on the sub. What do you guys think? :)

UPDATE 1: I just discovered another coincidence, so I had to add it to the post...lol

3. The Rafael Pacheco Pérez Incident (June 21, 1976)

Just a year before the 1977 anomalies, one of Mexico's greatest aviation mysteries took place. A 23 year old student pilot named Rafael Pacheco Pérez took off from Mexico City for a short, routine 25 mile solo navigation loop. Shortly after takeoff, his aircraft vanished from radar. Less than an hour later, he miraculously reappeared and landed over 250 miles away in Acapulco a distance completely impossible given the time elapsed and the specifications of his aircraft. Stranger still, his fuel tanks were found nearly full, and he had no memory of the flight.

Full message: This is not him speaking, it is us. He is speaking because he is ordered to do so, that is, this is his voice, he is speaking but not of his own free will. We are using him as if he were… yes, we are using him as a microphone.We do not matter much, neither where we are from, nor where we come from, it is enough for you to know that we are beings of this universe to which you belong. Our planet is many light-years away... You are not alone in the universe… we are observing you. We are physically identical to you. We are monitoring your progress, but your species is on a dangerous trajectory. If humanity does not change its ways, if you do not cease your violence, your wars, and your nuclear escalations, you will face an impending global catastrophe. This is a warning. We are watching.

Source: The Rafael Pacheco Pérez Incident

UPDATE 2: final i promise! Sorry, I literally remembered this as I go!

4. Former President Eisenhower ( It's a match )

The astonishing thing is, the message matches the alleged Eisenhower meeting with the Nordics in 1954 Edwards AFB perfectly. It's the exact same directive: complete nuclear disarmament in exchange for boundless advanced technology, clean/free energy systems, and spiritual wisdom to help restore and evolve our planet and life extension up to 300 years. The lore lines up seamlessly.

UPDATE 3: Speechless at this point. A fellow Redditor just pointed this out!

5. Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind hit theaters that exact same month in November 1977!

Coincidence? 🤯

6. Here is the list that is yet to be researched for messages in similar time frame. A fellow Redditor actually gave me the idea to use AI to find the rest!

1. The Billy Meier Plejaren Contact Case – January 28, 1975
2. The Emilio Cambiaghi Contact Incident – March 1975
3. The Loring AFB / Strategic Air Command Penetrations – October 28, 1975
4. The Travis Walton Abduction Incident – November 5, 1975
5. The Juan Oscar Alvarado Case – August 1976
6. The Allagash Waterway Abductions – August 20, 1976
7. The Tehran UFO Incident – September 19, 1976
8. The Broad Haven School Sighting – February 4, 1977
9. The Colares UFO Wave (Operation Saucer) – July to December 1977
10. The William J. Herrmann Reticulum Contact Case – November 1977
11. The Juan Pérez Abduction – September 6, 1978
12. The Valentich Disappearance – October 21, 1978
13. The Robert Taylor Dechmont Woods Encounter – November 9, 1978