Carl Blare

The time period in question is from about 5:30 AM to 7:03 AM this Monday morning, August 27, Central Time.

The time period in question is from about 5:30 AM to 7:03 AM this Monday morning, August 27, Central Time.

I was still asleep when I began to hear very unusual sound coming from another room. Slowly awakening, it sounded the way music would sound being played by a station covered by a live carrier, so I thought perhaps I’d left my 1550kHz transmitter turned on, and that I was covering a station trying to come in during the critical hours. But I definitely turned the transmitter off last night.

When I went into the radio room and listed, I heard what seemed like the strangest electronic music I’d ever heard, as if picked out on a musical keyboard, a regular rhythm, then unusual skips and pauses. The tonality seemed like square-waves, an edgy sound, with some of the peaks seeming to contain human vocal traces, like single-sideband or some shortwave effect.

As daylight increased, the sound began fading away, then fading back, and just past 6:30 AM I was able to record enough of it to share on an upcoming Low Power Hour.

It’s 6:56 AM now, 1550 has two voice stations way in the distance, but for a few seconds, the strange signal came back just slightly.