The East-Pointing Compass, the Mason Jar, and the 31 Signals
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The East-Pointing Compass, the Mason Jar, and the 31 Signals
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Fear of the unknown clutches the chest when a routine maintenance check yields a mason jar with a column of numbers and a child's compass pointing dead east - and 31 patterned radio bursts recorded over seven weeks at a remote observatory. What was left in the locker, who left it, and why did a steady astronomer log prime-number-spaced signals on the hydrogen line for nearly a month without telling anyone?
In this episode, we follow the sequence of events at Cassidy Ridge Observatory: the discovery of the jar by a utility lineman, the longtime staff astronomer's private logs of an unusual radio signal, and the mounting evidence that the transmissions were neither terrestrial interference nor random noise. How did those 31 detections, the east-pointing compass, and a sheet of numbers connect to what Roger Weaver had been hearing?
Person: Philip Allen
Person: Roger Weaver
Location: Cassidy Ridge Observatory, central New Mexico
Date: First signal logged September 22, 2011; mason jar found November 14, 2011
Event: 31 signal detections between September 22 and November 19, 2011
- Philip Allen opened a padlocked mesh locker and found a sealed glass mason jar with a sheet of numbers and a child's plastic compass on November 14, 2011.
- The compass needle on the jar lid pointed directly east rather than north.
- Roger Weaver logged a burst on the hydrogen line (~1.42 GHz) lasting 11-14 seconds, followed by a gap of roughly 41 seconds, repeated in a pattern.
- Weaver recorded the signal 31 times between September 22 and November 19, 2011, in the same spiral notebook where he noted daily temperatures for his tortoise, Clement.
- The intervals between bursts matched prime-number ratios, a pattern highlighted in a 1993 paper by Soviet-era engineer Volkov as indicative of an artificial beacon.
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