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MYSTERY RADIO SIGNAL picked up from BEYOND our GALAXY

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Dispersion. (The difference in arrival time of different frequencies indicates the distance travelled.)

I'm not a radio astronomer, but an AMS faq suggests meteor pulses are much longer (milliseconds to seconds) and easy to recognise.

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