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There is no consensus. But a fringe group of geographers and "chrono-archeologists" have proposed a wild hypothesis: that the Sahara of 1995 was not the Sahara we think we know.

Not "1995" as in the current year. The voice said: "Zero to point seven. Sahara. One-nine-nine-five. Zero." Sahara -1995-

Then, the signal came.

It’s a recording of what sounds like a bustling street market—carts creaking, vendors shouting in a language that linguists have tentatively identified as a dialect of Songhai, but with vocabulary that doesn't exist. You can hear children laughing. And then, at the 14-minute mark, someone says in perfect English: "Don't trust the maps from before the shift." There is no consensus

The tape ends with a single piano key: middle C, held for 11 seconds. The voice said: "Zero to point seven

Officially, it was "degraded beyond recovery" in a laboratory fire in 2001. Unofficially, a former DGSE agent told a journalist in 2018: "We didn't destroy it. We returned it. At the same coordinates, at the same time of year. And when we came back the next morning, the hole was filled with sand that was still warm, and the tape was gone."

The tape wasn't sent from space. It was buried in the sand of a world that no longer exists, unearthed by accident when the two realities briefly touched.