Hey guys I am a long time lurker, bringing my first case to see if you might be able to bust it.
I know I'm supposed to embed things for you to read but I'm not quite sure how to do it. So I'm going to list a link to a YouTube channel that recently summarized the case and I'll include a short description as well.
To sum it up, in the 1990s, a Air Force captain named Gary Subrink was on vacation with his family when he received what he claims are four extremely unusual phones calls. He says he recorded them on his answering machine which means we can listen to them today.
They are definitely weird.. extremely low pitched and slow and unnatural.. and they make extremely strange statements like "look at Orion when the sun rises on the dark side of the Moon"
As a result UFO folks think this is proof of some type of alien contact.
He claims the calls came in conjunction with a number of weird personal events.. somebody claimed to be him and called a close friend and while traveling to meet his family, strange people tried to interview him and learn his name.
The first aspect of this case is easily debunked... It's simply a pre-recorded tape that's been slowed down.. there are multiple indicators that this is true and I had a cassette player like this in that time frame so I know it's possible.
So debunkers have already brought the recording back up to speed, and big surprise, the voice sounds very much like the Air Force captain who reported this case... A young male with a light New Jersey accent.
My hypothesis is he recorded the weird phrases and had a friend call his parents house and the friend played the track back at low speed.
With that said, I wonder if anybody in the metabunk community has the skill set to sample Gary Subrink and the mysterious voice and then compare them?
I'm an audio engineer and sampling is incredibly simple, but I do not have access or experience using whatever software would be necessary to match voices.
The link to one of many Hocus pocus style videos follow.. it's funny to see that they've either bought in hook line and sinker or just think this is a great story, which frankly it is
Any and all thoughts.
Source: https://youtu.be/CBB_oJMRSA8?si=z89Lwyo5nVA2_7RZ
I know I'm supposed to embed things for you to read but I'm not quite sure how to do it. So I'm going to list a link to a YouTube channel that recently summarized the case and I'll include a short description as well.
To sum it up, in the 1990s, a Air Force captain named Gary Subrink was on vacation with his family when he received what he claims are four extremely unusual phones calls. He says he recorded them on his answering machine which means we can listen to them today.
They are definitely weird.. extremely low pitched and slow and unnatural.. and they make extremely strange statements like "look at Orion when the sun rises on the dark side of the Moon"

As a result UFO folks think this is proof of some type of alien contact.
He claims the calls came in conjunction with a number of weird personal events.. somebody claimed to be him and called a close friend and while traveling to meet his family, strange people tried to interview him and learn his name.
The first aspect of this case is easily debunked... It's simply a pre-recorded tape that's been slowed down.. there are multiple indicators that this is true and I had a cassette player like this in that time frame so I know it's possible.
So debunkers have already brought the recording back up to speed, and big surprise, the voice sounds very much like the Air Force captain who reported this case... A young male with a light New Jersey accent.
My hypothesis is he recorded the weird phrases and had a friend call his parents house and the friend played the track back at low speed.
With that said, I wonder if anybody in the metabunk community has the skill set to sample Gary Subrink and the mysterious voice and then compare them?
I'm an audio engineer and sampling is incredibly simple, but I do not have access or experience using whatever software would be necessary to match voices.
The link to one of many Hocus pocus style videos follow.. it's funny to see that they've either bought in hook line and sinker or just think this is a great story, which frankly it is

Any and all thoughts.
Source: https://youtu.be/CBB_oJMRSA8?si=z89Lwyo5nVA2_7RZ
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