Anomalous Phone Calls

Clicks, metallic voices and how to evaluate unexplained accounts.

Reports of unexplained clicks, metallic voices and strange calls raise a simple question: what can actually be checked? These guides cover technical explanations, individual accounts and a method for evaluating first-person reports.

Ordinary causes are tested first, and uncertainty is stated openly.

Guides

• Five Patterns Across Reports of Anomalous Phone Calls

  Reports of metallic voices and rhythmic clicks on phone calls share recurring features. Here are five, and how to examine each.

• Why Phones Click and Buzz: The Technical Explanations

  GSM interference, line crosstalk and narrow bandwidth can all produce strange sounds on a call. Here is what each one explains and where the gaps remain.

• The Debbie Jordan Account: Wednesday Calls and Unexplained Sounds

  A summary of one of the best-known telephone accounts in UFO literature, with a look at what the sources say and how to weigh them.

• Adrian Dvir: An Engineer Documents Calls He Could Not Trace

  How an Israeli computer engineer investigated a series of unexplained calls to his mobile phone, and what his method adds to the story.

• How to Evaluate an Unexplained Account

  A measured way to examine first-person reports, document observations and keep uncertainty visible.