"Oh." She hadn't considered that. "I just had thought maybe a distress signal would've been something a lot different from the rest.

"But you didn't get to answering my other question. Who are you? I mean, you said John Smith, but if you're one of the only people roundabout that's got this signal in sight, you can't be from around here." Physically, temporally, either way, it wasn't like all 21st century Humans were able to detect possibly alien distress signals. (Though she wondered how they couldn't, with all those mobile communication devices always up to their ears.)