Newcomer / Intro Question About Combat Aftermaths

When I enter a combat aftermath, there is nothing but a debris field. I get no notification in the chat window, no objects on my radar, and my contacts menu says "No contacts in range." What's worse, if I leave the zone, it remains on my navigation menu, and repeated visits produce the same. What is happening? Am I doing something wrong?
 
I've gone to these with my anaconda before, and it had fully-engineered sensors. Not sure if it can get any better than that.
 
They are on a timer and expire thirty? minutes after spawning, I don’t visit them much but with most of these USS features the newer they are when you arrive the more likely you are to find stuff other than the debris, depending on the USS and threat level this is not necessarily a good thing.
 
When I enter a combat aftermath, there is nothing but a debris field. I get no notification in the chat window, no objects on my radar, and my contacts menu says "No contacts in range." What's worse, if I leave the zone, it remains on my navigation menu, and repeated visits produce the same. What is happening? Am I doing something wrong?

You should get a message in your comms panel asking you to get data (or black box?) - like a normal mission-offer message - I remember getting the message and not seeing any contact but that was ages ago as I don't bother with them any more because they are boring.
 
Once upon a time, a long time ago, there were some nice engineering mats floating around too.

Yes indeed. When I first started engineering these were great for mats. When that came to an end I stopped going in to them so can't help the OP.
 
Once upon a time, a long time ago, there were some nice engineering mats floating around too.
Those are still around, just rarer. You want the Threat 0 variety for mats, for some reason most of them are Threat 1 with the data scenario now. Would be funny if Op was in a T0 and didn't know what the "debris" was.
 
@DoctorW - When you say, multiple visits, are you logging out of the game?

While the event of the Combat Aftermath is on a timer, the instance resets each time you log out of the game.
 
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