I work at NASA and everything is perfectly normal by Free-Health-1421
September 26, 2026
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5 min readA NASA scientist discovers an object near Jupiter that is far too reflective and geometrically regular to be a natural asteroid. When a radio astronomer colleague detects a narrowband, modulated signal coming from the same object—clear evidence of artificial transmission—the expected chaos does not follow. Instead, colleagues dismiss the data, superiors fabricate reports, and the entire institution behaves as if nothing unusual is happening, even as the object accelerates toward Earth with a two-day arrival window.
The story, narrated on MrCreepyPasta's Storytime, is a first-person account from a mid-level researcher in a small solar-system group at NASA. The episode opens with a deliberately mundane scene: colleagues haggle over a cardboard box, the boss makes coffee, and the narrator sits at his desk trying to hide that everything around him has become "utterly insane." The tension between the extraordinary nature of the discovery and the bureaucratic normalcy of the response is the central mechanism of the story.
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- 2 (00:55) **NASA Office Normalcy** - The narrator describes a perfectly ordinary day at NASA, with colleagues discussing telescope time and a cardboard box, while hiding that everything is actually insane
- 3 (02:06) **The Discovery Begins** - The Vera Rubin Observatory's machine learning algorithm flags an unusually bright object among Jupiter's Trojans
- 4 (02:59) **The Object Gets Stranger** - Two weeks later, detailed telescope data reveals the object is unnaturally regular in shape and extremely reflective
- 5 (03:52) **Mobilizing the Team** - The narrator assigns colleagues to gather infrared data and corroborating observations while the boss offers to contact the James Webb Space Telescope
- 6 (04:43) **Joanne Offers Help** - Radio astronomer Joanne volunteers to point a dish at the object to check for transmissions
- 7 (05:44) **The Signal is Real** - Joanne arrives the next morning terrified, having detected a narrowband modulated signal from the object
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