Deadline desk
Office of External Affairs
Use for active stories, fact checks, interview requests, and correction questions.
- Extension
- 204
- Availability
- Weekdays, 09:00-17:30 Eastern; urgent deadlines are logged by the switchboard.
News & Press
Press Kit
For journalists, editors, producers, and institutional communications staff covering the Laboratories.
Newsroom desk
A staffed route for public claims and deadline questions.
External Affairs can answer questions about public records, publications, Field Array participation, and scheduled interviews. It cannot strengthen scientific claims, preview unpublished conclusions, or arrange casual access to the Calder Ridge tract.
Legal name
Fundamental Acoustics Laboratories
Established
1958
Institution type
Private, non-profit research institute
Field station
Calder Ridge Field Station
Public switchboard
(440) 805-2497
General correspondence
Public contact form
Media contacts
Route the request before the interview.
Send deadline questions through the public switchboard or the Contact form with the requested office in the subject. Requests that name a record, docket, report, or publication can be routed faster and with fewer follow-up questions.
Records desk
Records and Catalog Office
Use for catalog IDs, report references, archive status, and citation questions.
- Extension
- 233
- Availability
- Reviewed in intake order; include docket, accession, or catalog identifiers.
Contributor desk
Distributed Analysis Initiative
Use for Field Array client, volunteer compute, installer, and privacy questions.
- Extension
- 240
- Availability
- Contributor questions are triaged before program staff are scheduled.
Official releases
Latest release-type statements only.
Press releaseMay 18, 2026
Night Watch: the sky and the record, together
A public instrument for browsing the sky alongside catalogued detections and source-backed historical entries.
Calder Ridge Field Station, Ohio
Press releaseMay 18, 2026
The Persistent Signal Catalog opens to the public
The Laboratories release a public subset of the standing anomaly record, with literature entries and FAL entries in one system.
Calder Ridge Field Station, Ohio
Press releaseNovember 2, 2025
The Distributed Analysis Initiative passes thirty thousand contributors
Volunteer computers now perform the majority of the Laboratories' candidate reduction work.
Calder Ridge Field Station, Ohio
Press releaseMarch 9, 2024
FA-0447: a fifty-three-year carrier we cannot place
The Laboratories publish a recurrence summary for their longest-standing unresolved detection.
Calder Ridge Field Station, Ohio
Spokespeople
Authorized public subject areas.
Staff interviews are scheduled through External Affairs. These records identify public topic boundaries; they are not permission to contact staff directly or bypass program review.
Eleanor Cross
Director of Communications & External Affairs
Ext. 204
- institutional statements
- media access
- public language standard
- Field Array contributor communications
Does not preview unpublished findings.
Dr. Naomi V. Ellison
Director
Ext. 201
- institute policy
- public findings threshold
- review standards
- governance
Comments only on approved public findings.
Dr. Rahul Menon
Deputy Director; Chief Scientist, Celestial & Aerial Signals
Ext. 212
- Night Watch
- celestial catalog methods
- sky-coordinate review
- radio-frequency source rejection
Does not discuss live candidate queues.
Dr. Frances Okafor
Head, Persistent Signal Catalog
Ext. 233
- Persistent Signal Catalog
- classification language
- source-backed records
- catalog corrections
Does not speculate on source mechanism.
Dr. Ingrid Solvberg
Chief, Distributed Analysis Initiative
Ext. 240
- Field Array
- volunteer compute
- installer verification
- contributor privacy
Does not discuss unreleased client telemetry.
Boilerplate
Approved institutional language.
Use this language when describing the Laboratories in coverage, partner pages, event materials, or data-product references. Scientific claims should be taken from the specific release or public record being cited.
Short description
Fundamental Acoustics Laboratories is a private, non-profit research institute established in 1958 to study persistent low-frequency and sub-audible signals in ground, water, atmosphere, and sky records.
Standard description
Fundamental Acoustics Laboratories operates the Calder Ridge Field Station and associated remote instruments. Its public work includes the Persistent Signal Catalog, Night Watch, source-backed research commentary, and the Field Array volunteer distributed-analysis program. The Laboratories classify retained records by observed behavior and review state, not by presumed cause.
Technology note
Stratis, Inc. supports selected machine-analysis and release-packaging systems used by the Laboratories. Scientific classifications and public findings remain subject to FAL review standards.
Media assets
Approved public-use files and credit lines.
These files are approved for coverage of the Laboratories. Do not represent masked screens, staged public-data displays, or archival rooms as live operations unless a caption says so.
| Asset | Format | Usage | Credit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Institution emblem /emblem.png | PNG | Use on plain light or dark backgrounds without recoloring, cropping, or adding effects. | Fundamental Acoustics Laboratories |
| Open graph card /og.jpg | JPG | Use as a general web or social preview when no story-specific image is approved. | Fundamental Acoustics Laboratories |
| Calder Ridge exterior /images/facility/exterior.jpg | JPG | Approved exterior image for general institutional coverage. | Fundamental Acoustics Laboratories / External Affairs |
| Control room public data view /images/site/control-room.jpg | JPG | Screens shown in public communications contain public or masked data only. | Fundamental Acoustics Laboratories / External Affairs |
| Archive reading room /images/site/archive.jpg | JPG | Use for records, catalog, publication, and archive-access stories. | Fundamental Acoustics Laboratories / Records Office |
Request package
What to include.
| Interview | outlet, topic, requested staff member, format, length, deadline |
| Fact check | exact sentence or claim, publication context, deadline, source link |
| Records story | catalog ID, report ID, accession, date range, intended use |
| Filming | crew count, gear list, requested areas, date range, distribution |
| Field Array story | contributor angle, client question, installer or privacy focus |
Language standard
State what the record supports.
| Say | Do not say |
|---|---|
| unresolved | unexplainable |
| no known source matched the reviewed record | no source exists |
| candidate detection | confirmed event |
| consistent with the published report | proves the hypothesis |
| under review | withheld for dramatic effect |