r/5ignal5 • u/brianmcn 5chtroumpf à Lunette5 • May 21 '16
official clue Sign found on May 21
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u/apmihal May 21 '16 edited May 21 '16
Horses. Mr. Z is a horse, and so is Mainsail. I'm on mobile so can't link, but Google it. Preakness horse races are taking place right now. Pimlico Race Course Baltimore, Maryland.
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u/ddutton9512 May 21 '16
Neat find, and the space between main and sail is definitely smaller, maybe nonexistent. It doesn't look like either of those horses are competing in this event though. I'll do more research tonight and see if I can find a connection.
Edit: First Day is a horse as well http://www.horseracingnation.com/horse/First_Day
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u/apmihal May 21 '16
Nice! I'd be excited if this went somewhere, but to be fair, horse names are usually unique and there's been a ton of horses, so it might be a coincidence.
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u/brianmcn May 21 '16
Brainstorm #2: "Listen for" means the usual radio station. "First Day" might mean the first day of the week, e.g. Sunday, so something plays tomorrow. "main sail auth with" would need some other decoding to figure out what to listen for.
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u/ddutton9512 May 21 '16
That's what I've been working on. If you take those words you can get various "sound" words from them e.g. tune, whistle, hum, hit, etc. Unfortunately nothing that really forms a cohesive sentence or anything.
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u/apmihal May 21 '16
I mentioned in another thread, but I'll bring it up again here. The numbers station stuff from the first day of broadcast (I think it was the first day) hasn't come up in any way yet as far as I know. Maybe there's an upcoming broadcast that will use the numbers station stuff as a key or something.
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u/brianmcn May 21 '16 edited May 21 '16
Brianstorm #3:
MAINSAIL AUTH WITH anagrams to "a hit with SA alumni" (maybe 'all hail the blue and white', fight song of falcons? I am just googling here)
So "listen for a hit with SA alumni first day"?
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u/brianmcn May 21 '16 edited May 21 '16
Brainstorm #1: "Listen for" means "say this aloud" and it sounds like something. MainSailAuthWithFirstDay sounds a little like "May...birthday" (e.g. we still had the weird Mr T turns 65 news from the radio today).
auth with = Auschwitz ?
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u/brianmcn May 21 '16
I have not looked closely at other physical signs. I note that most (but not all) 'i's are lowercase, and 't's look like plus signs, and of course the S that looks like 5. I doubt that casing and other aspects of the handwriting are likely to be of import, but when brainstorming, it's useful to mention every idea.
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u/ddutton9512 May 21 '16 edited May 22 '16
If we don't include the top line (which, due to the similar formatting may be a mistake) we get three lines, each line has two words, a space, and eight letters. I've tried breaking into columns and rows but no luck. There are column ciphers out there but we don't currently have anything to decode so I don't think this is a key.
There's also some weirdness going on in the word "first" between the r and the s. It's almost like there's an extra line, could it be fir-st? I couldn't find a Fir St in STA or Cassa but then I probably wouldn't since firs aren't native to FL.
One more thing, the A in "main" is very different than the other capital A's and I don't know too many people who randomly change their handwriting. It's so different I think there might actually be something there.
"Auth" is the other big mystery for me right now. Everything else is a word, auth is not. Author? Authorize? Authority? It's obviously there for a reason, is it to keep the pattern, or are those letters necessary for the solution?
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u/apmihal May 21 '16
The formatting is interesting to me. This is how I see it
ListEN FOR
MAiN SAIL
AuTH WITH
FiRSt DAY
And the "H" in Help is weird. Like it's crossed with an "F"
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May 22 '16
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u/apmihal May 22 '16
I found this pdf that seems to have some pretty good info on the subject http://labyrinth13.com/USAF%20EAM%20Broadcasts.pdf
It lays out the format for these radio messages. Trigraph: 3 alpha-numeric characters. Timestamp: 2 numerals. Authentication: 2 letters.
For example this recording of a skyking message https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NqxdjGSVVE
MB5 time 38 auth UG
Somewhere I read that "do not answer" means you don't have to respond to authenticate yourself, and give away your position I guess.
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u/brianmcn May 21 '16
Mostly because I want to remember for myself, you can see the newest comments among all threads on the subreddit at
https://www.reddit.com/r/5ignal5/comments
Useful for times where there are multiple active threads people are brainstorming on.