The global astronomical community is edging nearer to determining whether intelligent alien life really exists, and government agencies and academics may have been given a hand by an amateur astronomer.

That's because astronomy YouTuber and space enthusiast Alberto Caballero believes he might have pinpointed the source of a mysterious signal famously attributed to intelligent alien life, according to Live Science.

According to Caballero, the so-called Wow! Signal, detected by a radio telescope on August 15, 1977, may have originated at a Sun-like star 1,800 lightyears from Earth in the Sagittarius constellation.

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