UFO

Kyr One

Kyr One
Ozric said:
The easiest way to check the journal would be to jump to the system that is 4Ly away, and then log out. Log in, jump to the UFO system, open the FSS and do a Discovery Scanner honk, close the FSS, exit the game. In the journal folder C:\Users\{username}\Saved Games\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous the most recent journal file will be that one. There is a lot of information about your commander that is loaded into it when you first log in which you don't have to/might not want to share, so you can search the file for "event":"FSDJump" that is the line where you initiate the jump to the UFO system.

You could copy and paste everything from then on out to a txt file and look through it, and/or attach it here to see if anything stands out. It probably won't on an initial scan, but you never know.
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I did just as you suggested. I have attached that log file with the personal info removed.
 

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Caelum Incola

Caelum Incola
Can I suggest taking a screen shot, then waiting 15-20 mins and taking another. You could then display both and flick back and forth between them to detect the UFO. Once identified you could potentially fly towards it in SC and get a little closer?
 

t-lo

t-lo
Kyr One said:
I did just as you suggested. I have attached that log file with the personal info removed.
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{ "timestamp":"2023-02-01T09:41:53Z", "event":"FSSDiscoveryScan", "Progress":1.000000, "BodyCount":5, "NonBodyCount":1, "SystemName":"Skombeou AA-A h42", "SystemAddress":354452815 }

I wonder what that one "NonBody" is - a signal source?
 

Kyr One

Kyr One
Caelum Incola said:
Can I suggest taking a screen shot, then waiting 15-20 mins and taking another. You could then display both and flick back and forth between them to detect the UFO. Once identified you could potentially fly towards it in SC and get a little closer?
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Several hours pass between transits. I'm not going to take screenshots every 15 minutes for hours at a time to see if one of the dots moved. Frontier doesn't pay me enough to do that. :)

t-lo said:
{ "timestamp":"2023-02-01T09:41:53Z", "event":"FSSDiscoveryScan", "Progress":1.000000, "BodyCount":5, "NonBodyCount":1, "SystemName":"Skombeou AA-A h42", "SystemAddress":354452815 }

I wonder what that one "NonBody" is - a signal source?
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I'm pretty sure that's my FC.
 

t-lo

t-lo
Kyr One said:
Several hours pass between transits. I'm not going to take screenshots every 15 minutes for hours at a time to see if one of the dots moved. Frontier doesn't pay me enough to do that. :)


I'm pretty sure that's my FC.
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Oh - I was under the impression you've parked it outside the system. It was outside when you recorded the time lapses, right?
 

Ozric

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Ozric
Kyr One said:
I did just as you suggested. I have attached that log file with the personal info removed.
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Nope nothing obvious is showing in the journal from the initial scan. I didn't think there would be but worth checking. If it is not the Neutron Star that is in the system orbiting around the barycentre then I think without determining the rough direction of the object and then flying towards it, it's going to be very hard.

Once you know the direction you could try the old way of exploring and flying at a 45 degree angle to the orbital plane of the system and see if the object moves relative to the stars in the sky box. If it doesn't then it's not in the system.

Q GT70 said:
then sometimes, things collide, making more changes, more equations of movement
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Not in Elite it doesn't.

it could be a local comet
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No it would be in the journal.

it could be a rogue comet or body
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Not in Elite unfortunately.

intentional changes made before the split, have made many things not show up in the log.
this stemmed from others using a method for locating comets being used, that apparently was un-intentional.
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That's not really true. Brute forcing the galaxy map is done in the Galaxy Map, the only thing used from the journal was the system address.



t-lo said:
{ "timestamp":"2023-02-01T09:41:53Z", "event":"FSSDiscoveryScan", "Progress":1.000000, "BodyCount":5, "NonBodyCount":1, "SystemName":"Skombeou AA-A h42", "SystemAddress":354452815 }

I wonder what that one "NonBody" is - a signal source?
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I am fairly certain that is his Fleet Carrier.

t-lo said:
Oh - I was under the impression you've parked it outside the system. It was outside when you recorded the time lapses, right?
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No I don't believe it was, but it would be nice to move it out so it eliminates the possibility.
 

Kyr One

Kyr One
t-lo said:
Oh - I was under the impression you've parked it outside the system. It was outside when you recorded the time lapses, right?
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No, it was parked less than 1 ls from the system primary BH, which was 1350 ls directly ahead of me next to its binary NS.
 

Caelum Incola

Caelum Incola
Kyr One said:
Several hours pass between transits. I'm not going to take screenshots every 15 minutes for hours at a time to see if one of the dots moved. Frontier doesn't pay me enough to do that. :)
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Understand, but you'd probably only need to take a couple of pics and flick them back and forth for it to show up. I suspect 20 mins will be enough. o7
 

Kyr One

Kyr One
Ozric said:
Nope nothing obvious is showing in the journal from the initial scan. I didn't think there would be but worth checking. If it is not the Neutron Star that is in the system orbiting around the barycentre then I think without determining the rough direction of the object and then flying towards it, it's going to be very hard.
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The NS is 1350 ls directly ahead in a very tight orbit around the primary BH and quite visibly does not appear to move at all during any of the videos.
I have actually tried to find the orbital period of the C-D-D1 bodies around the A-B bodies but have not, nor have I found any central barycenter info for this system, although the sysmap orrery does show a circle for the whole system orbit. Given how far away the two body groups are I would guess that orbit is years long.
 

Ozric

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Ozric
Kyr One said:
The NS is 1350 ls directly ahead in a very tight orbit around the primary BH and quite visibly does not appear to move at all during any of the videos.
I have actually tried to find the orbital period of the C-D-D1 bodies around the A-B bodies but have not, nor have I found any central barycenter info for this system, although the sysmap orrery does show a circle for the whole system orbit. Given how far away the two body groups are I would guess that orbit is years long.
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Ah yes I see that now. I had originally thought that was a collection of bright stars in the distance, like the NGC 7822 ones :D It is, now, quite obviously a Neutron Star though.
 

Kyr One

Kyr One
I have been communicating with FDev about this UFO. Their initial response was that they "believed" that this is an in-system body orbiting a much darker object, in orbit around my position.

I replied that I "did not believe" that explanation was correct as all of the system bodies were accounted for, and none fit the orbital characteristics displayed by the UFO. I also sent them links to the follow-up videos.

FDev has given me their final response: what I've been seeing is an "irregularity."

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