To answer the second question, the sounds that they used on that episode had nothing to do with the "Wow!" signal; they were simply sounds that the "X-Files" folks picked to set the mood in that TV show, and they had no relation to the signal we received. Note that there was no audio recording of the "Wow!" signal at the Big Ear radio telescope (see previous question).

On this website we have an audio file of a portion of the "Little Green Men" episode that you may listen to. It will require that you have a Real Audio player or equivalent because the file format is a "ram" file. The name of the file is "xfiles.ram"; Please click here to play that file.

It turns out that there were at least two errors made in representing the "Wow!" signal on the TV show.
(1) It was said that the "Wow!" signal was "intermittent". We cannot determine if the signal was "intermittent" or not. Since we obtained one data point per channel every 12 seconds (10 seconds for observing plus 2 seconds for analysis and printout), any variation in the signal more frequently than once every 12 seconds could not be detected. The average value of the signal was almost perfectly constant over the total time of 72 seconds that it was in our beam (after removing the effect of the beam pattern). However, since we had two beams separated by about 3 minutes and we saw the signal in only one beam, we can say that the signal did not last more than 24 hours (when we should have seen it again; we didn't!). Thus, the term "intermittent" is true only on a time scale of 24 hours but not on a time scale of 12 seconds.
(2) It was also said that the signal was like Morse code. In the comment above to the first error, it was noted that no variation of the signal with a time scale less than 12 seconds could be detected. We saw no evidence of any variation (including the variation that would have occurred if Morse code had been used) during the 72 seconds in which the signal was observed.

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