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[matty2431]

Not sure if im running down the wrong path but I have made something very legible out of the times + tone numbers by assuming the static is the beginning of the message. Thus: 25271339

:07 = 9
:06 = 3
:05 = 3
:04 = 1
:03 = 7
:02 = 2
:01 = 5
:00 = 2
=(7963534137221502)> 7 9 6 3 5 3 4 13 7 22 15 02> gifcecdmgvob

when split into three letter stanzas

gif
cec
dmg
vob

all very widely used file types. (.gif, .cec, .dmg, .vob)

[GeniferB]

OK, hubby just got home...used his Shazam app and it didn't recognize the sounds as anything.

[FilmEdge]

[GeniferB]

Since some of this sounds sort of "underwatery" to me...I did a little research on unexplained ocean sounds (I remembered being scared of the Bloop...OMG Cthulhu!) and found this. It certainly originates from the right time period...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quacker_%28sound%29

[TrueJournals]

I honestly think right now, with what we have, DTMF tones is the best guess. I'm thinking that a keypad will show up somewhere, and we'll have to enter the password (often times these end with #, and someone noted that this series ends with #). Either that, or we'll be given a phone number at one point, and have to enter a password to get through to a recorded message of some sort.

Overall, I think that the sound is what it is: a series of tones. Trying to find some sort of voice or hidden meaning in it is pretty fruitless at this point. We need to find somewhere to USE the sound file, but I don't think we have a place available yet. Perhaps they've started sending back Rocket Poppeteers things, and the sound file is used in conjunction with the reply.

[comadarkvale]

[FilmEdge]

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[FilmEdge]

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[FilmEdge]

I asked a musician friend of mine who also digs puzzles (I'm trying to enlist him here) about this tonal clue, and here's what he sent back to me after he reviewed the four variations on the sound file. He came up with some slight changes on results (notes) people mentioned earlier — presented unedited in case he provides another applicable clue:

[RasGold]

Music to my Ears ...

[comadarkvale]

why put area code for area 51?why not minot? and i dont think we would be out of our gear lol

[RasGold]

The IP Address ...

[Senjut]

Ok, I no longer think these are DTMF tones.

I found and downloaded a DTMF detector program:

http://www.zeebar.com/tkddt/

Then I tested it by having it read a DTMF "1" file I found on the web (DTMF1.wav), and it very cleanly said that was a 1.

Then I converted the expcnv.mp3 file to a wav file using iTunes (and checked that it sounded the same), and then ran it through this program, and it couldn't read the tones cleanly at all.

I tried the sped up and backwards ones also. No dice.

[VanGoghX]

I think RasGold's on the right track. It's an IP address or the notes are a URL.
Tried the numbers as: 161.81.33.8 and it's registered to a Boulder, CO company named ExaByte. But the registration date is '92.
161.8.133.8 and 161.8.13.38 are registered in Russia.
16.18.133.8 and 16.18.13.38 are registered to HP in the same location as RasGold identified.

[RasGold]

Re: The IP Address ...