Off-World
Non-human intelligence, orbital anomalies, recovered craft, and the agencies that hold the files. Reported to the same standard as any other beat.
On Sunday Morning The Sky Went Quiet For Forty-One Minutes
Receivers in four countries logged the ring-system carrier at zero between 04:12 and 04:53 UTC. A retired radio astronomer thinks the likeliest cause is instrumental and named four candidates. Sixty-one people have told us what they were doing.
The Moon Rang For Three Hours And Fifty-One Minutes
A retired engineer spent nine years cataloguing every long-period event in the public lunar archive. We pulled forty entries at random. Four were wrong, and he corrected them while we watched, and asked us to print that.
The Signal From Orbit Was Coming From Our Laptop
For four days this newspaper reported a repeating twelve-bit sequence from catalogued debris object 25570. The sequence was an artefact of our reporter's analysis software, which reproduces it from a file of silence in under an hour. The struck-through paragraph stays visible.
Two Groups Showed Their Working. Two Would Not.
Four computations of the same orbit disagree by 214 years. We asked all four to publish their inputs. The two that did both reproduced on our correspondent's own machine. The other two are not wrong. They are worse than wrong.