Every once in a while, people encounter things on their radio, TV, or interstellar wave detectors that no one can explain. Is it a secret military message? A prankster hacking just to see if it can be done? Aliens trying to contact us? Cracked has five cases that still haven't been settled. Take, for example, the case of UVB-76.
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It is an irritating, electronic noise, not unlike the sound of a truck horn played through a cheese grater. It is broadcast over a certain frequency, constantly, and has been since at least 1982. But the weird part isn't the tone, but what happens when it stops.
In its 20-something year run, the sound has been interrupted only three times, the earliest known time being Christmas Eve in 1997. Each time a voice comes on and lists several Russian names and numbers before returning to the foghorn. The most recent occurrence was 2006, a mere three years before the time of this writing. It is clearly becoming more active after remaining quiet during the Cold War.
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That's what I'm wondering about. If that's the case, it makes me less concerned about the broadcast, and more concerned about that guy who has been listening to it his entire life!
I used to do this for a company. i monitored 75+ different broadcasts of repetitive announcements and visually checked in on them once a day for problems.
The tech to do this has been available for over 30 years, and before that you also could have the sound waves printed to paper and backed up with analog tape.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_stations
http://www.archive.org/details/ird059
sounded like a duck. quack quack quack nonstop. never figured it out.
I have heard the "quacking" on the 6500khz that Johannesburg Jay mentioned. I had found that by accident.
There is one that comes from Laguna Pueblo in my state, and that one is Yosemite Sam.