# Gorvett 2017: The ghostly radio station that no one claims to run

> Zaria Gorvett, 2017. 10 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The named expert assessment of the leading readings.

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# The ghostly radio station that no one claims to run

Zaria Gorvett, 2017. _BBC Future, 1 August 2017 (republished 15 July 2020)_.

Feature on the Buzzer and numbers stations. Quotes David Stupples, a signals intelligence specialist at City, University of London, that "there's absolutely no information in the signal", and his reasons for rejecting the Dead Hand and ionospheric-sounding explanations: the station does not change frequency with the time of day as a guaranteed long-range link would, and ionospheric sounders sound nothing like it.

**UVB-76, "the Buzzer"** Web pageChecked against the original0

## What it's used for here

The named expert assessment of the leading readings.

## Cited by on this site 10 records

[It is a numbers station sending enciphered messages to agents abroad.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/uvb-76-buzzer/answers/ANS0CR2JY1G25XT/it-is-a-numbers-station-sending-enciphered-messages-to)

Answer

ANS

[The buzz is part of an automatic nuclear retaliation (Perimeter or "dead hand") system, whose silence would…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/uvb-76-buzzer/answers/ANS0CR2JW304QXT/the-buzz-is-part-of-an-automatic-nuclear-retaliation)

Answer

ANS

[The station sounds the ionosphere, for example to support over-the-horizon radar.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/uvb-76-buzzer/answers/ANS0CR2JXA22BGN/the-station-sounds-the-ionosphere-for-example-to-support)

Answer

ANS

[No message has been decoded and the Russian military has never acknowledged the station.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/uvb-76-buzzer/evidence/EVD0CR2JVV65JBM/no-message-has-been-decoded-and-the-russian-military-has)

Evidence

EVD

[No message has been decoded despite years of public logging.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/uvb-76-buzzer/evidence/EVD0CR2K26A5HSX/no-message-has-been-decoded-despite-years-of-public-logging)

Evidence

EVD

[Stupples says ionospheric sounders sound nothing like the Buzzer.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/uvb-76-buzzer/evidence/EVD0CR2JXHW7F7X/stupples-says-ionospheric-sounders-sound-nothing-like-the)

Evidence

EVD

[The station does not change frequency with the time of day, as a guaranteed long-range link would.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/uvb-76-buzzer/evidence/EVD0CR2JWAT583M/the-station-does-not-change-frequency-with-the-time-of-day)

Evidence

EVD

[David Stupples](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/uvb-76-buzzer/people/FIG0CR2JP7G34BK/david-stupples)

FIG

[UVB-76, "the Buzzer"](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/uvb-76-buzzer)

The mystery article

MYS

[What is the Buzzer for?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/uvb-76-buzzer/questions/QST0CR2JSWP3WDM/what-is-the-buzzer-for)

Question

QST

## Cite it

```
Gorvett, Z. (2017). The ghostly radio station that no one claims to run. BBC Future, 1 August 2017 (republished 15 July 2020). https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170801-the-ghostly-radio-station-that-no-one-claims-to-run
```

[Read it free at bbc.com](https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170801-the-ghostly-radio-station-that-no-one-claims-to-run)

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