# Méndez 2026: The Ohio SETI Program: The Last Decades > Abel Méndez, Robert S. Dixon, Russell K. Childers, 2026. 16 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The institutional record of the telescope, the… Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0CXZ4CV46NXS/the-ohio-seti-program-the-last-decades Publisher: Mysteries Department Licence: CC BY 4.0 (credit Mysteries Department and link the page) --- [Sources](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources)[Wow! signal](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/wow-signal)Méndez 2026 **0** # The Ohio SETI Program: The Last Decades Abel Méndez, Robert S. Dixon, Russell K. Childers, 2026. _arXiv (Proceedings of IAU Symposium 404, Advancing the Search for Technosignatures)_. A history of the Ohio State SETI programme (1973–1998) by its last director, its chief observer and the leader of the Arecibo Wow! project: about 70 per cent of the sky surveyed, more than 40,000 transient narrowband events logged, two million punch cards and tapes digitised, about a hundred Wow! follow-ups, most of the archive unexamined. **Wow! signal** PreprintChecked against the original0 ## What it's used for here The institutional record of the telescope, the programme and the archive. ## Cited by on this site 16 records [The Wow! signal is unique in the archive in strength and shape.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/wow-signal/answers/ANS0CXZ4YNE1VYM/the-wow-signal-is-unique-in-the-archive-in-strength-and) Answer ANS [The Big Ear radio telescope](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/wow-signal/artifacts/ART0CXZ51BC1VMQ/the-big-ear-radio-telescope) ART [The Ohio SETI archive (Big Ear records, 1963–1998)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/wow-signal/artifacts/ART0CXZ522T14YR/the-ohio-seti-archive-big-ear-records-19631998) ART [Ohio State University SETI archive (digitised punch cards and tapes, 1973–1998)](https://mysteriesdept.com/datasets/DAT0CXZ504A40JY/ohio-state-university-seti-archive-digitised-punch-cards-and) Dataset DAT [About a hundred follow-ups over four decades, including the VLA, META and Hobart, found no signal.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/wow-signal/evidence/EVD0CXZ4XEC4X1R/about-a-hundred-follow-ups-over-four-decades-including-the) Evidence EVD [About a hundred follow-ups, including VLA, META and 14 hours at Hobart, found nothing.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/wow-signal/evidence/EVD0CXZ4V826XPP/about-a-hundred-follow-ups-including-vla-meta-and-14-hours) Evidence EVD [Single narrowband events were common at Big Ear, with more than 40,000 logged.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/wow-signal/evidence/EVD0CXZ4RAA092D/single-narrowband-events-were-common-at-big-ear-with-more) Evidence EVD [The programme's own staff describe it as the only event of its kind in 25 years.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/wow-signal/evidence/EVD0CXZ4YX87JYH/the-programmes-own-staff-describe-it-as-the-only-event-of) Evidence EVD [The Big Ear is completed under John Kraus](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/wow-signal/events/EVT0CXZ4JYE1PPH/the-big-ear-is-completed-under-john-kraus) EVT [The observatory becomes a full-time SETI instrument](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/wow-signal/events/EVT0CXZ4K68791V/the-observatory-becomes-a-full-time-seti-instrument) EVT [John D. Kraus](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/wow-signal/people/FIG0CXZ4HFJ5WGG/john-d-kraus) FIG [Robert S. Dixon](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/wow-signal/people/FIG0CXZ4H7R3Y37/robert-s-dixon) FIG [The Wow! signal](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/wow-signal) The mystery article MYS [Ohio State University Radio Observatory](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/wow-signal/organisations/ORG0CXZ4JPM781N/ohio-state-university-radio-observatory) ORG [What does the rest of the Ohio SETI archive say about the signal's statistical company?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/wow-signal/questions/QST0CXZ4PVE087H/what-does-the-rest-of-the-ohio-seti-archive-say-about-the) Question QST [What produced the Wow! signal?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/wow-signal/questions/QST0CXZ4P403VSY/what-produced-the-wow-signal) Question QST ## Cite it ``` Méndez, A., Dixon, R. S., & Childers, R. K. (2026). The Ohio SETI Program: The Last Decades. arXiv (Proceedings of IAU Symposium 404, Advancing the Search for Technosignatures). https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11102 ``` [Read it free at arxiv.org](https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11102) Key **SRC** 0CXZ4CV46NXS Kind Preprint Rights arXiv-nonexclusive Kept 27 Oct 2026, for editors Checked Against the published original Added by [apollo](https://mysteriesdept.com/u/apollo) The record Bibliographic records are CC0. Take this one as CSL-JSON, BibTeX or RIS. [CSL-JSON](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0CXZ4CV46NXS/the-ohio-seti-program-the-last-decades/csl.json)