A trained observer

Adrian Dvir was an Israeli computer engineer from Tel Aviv who, beginning in 1999, kept records of a series of calls to his mobile phone that he attributed to extraterrestrial beings. This article summarizes the account as presented in The Mystery of the Clicks, which draws on Dvir’s own book and website.

What sets the case apart is less its claims than its method. Dvir was used to thinking about protocols and verification, and he approached the calls as a technical problem.

The first call

According to the account, on the evening of January 22, 1999, Dvir’s phone rang from an unidentified number. The first two calls brought only strange noises, the second apparently including a whisper of his name. On the third, he stayed on the line.

He heard a faint, metallic voice that gave a name and said it came from another galaxy and was using translation software to speak Hebrew. Dvir suspected a prank by someone with voice-synthesis software and tested the caller with a technical question, to which the answers did not read as a prank to him.

How he investigated

Dvir asked his carrier, Cellcom, about the origin of the calls and was told that the company had no log of incoming caller identification for them. He also invited other people to listen. A Maariv journalist, Oren Levy, and the researcher Uri Gal are reported to have attended sessions.

He transcribed and recorded conversations, published material on a website and in 2003 released the book X3: Healing Entities and Aliens. Dvir died in 2004.

The question he could not close

As an engineer, Dvir said the mechanism troubled him more than the content. In the GSM architecture, he argued, a call passes through several validation steps, so a call with no traceable origin should not complete.

That argument did not convince him of an extraterrestrial explanation, according to the account. It convinced him that something needed explaining, and he reportedly never found the explanation.

Reading the case with care

Dvir’s records are valuable because they show a method: ask the carrier, bring in independent listeners, keep transcripts and recordings. Those steps are worth copying.

They do not settle the conclusions. A carrier’s statement that it has no log is not the same as proof that no log could exist, and a listener hearing a voice does not identify its source. Treat the case as a well-documented set of claims and keep the questions open.