Since 1998 the Parkes Observatory, a radio telescope in Australia, would occasionally pick up faint whiffs of mysterious radio transmissions (see a common theme here?) that would disappear as soon as they arrived, flirting from one frequency to another. The signal didn’t appear to come from any particular direction on the sky, but did tend to cluster around midday. But no, it wasn’t the sun. They checked. They were dubbed Perytons, because that sounded fanciful enough. Papers were written about them. Could it be … ? But they didn’t check their cafeteria. It turns out that when you get a little
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