The mysterious Persian-language transmission began about 12 hours after the start of the US-Israeli bombing campaign against Iran. It was jammed five days later. Is it a coded message for US agents in ...

There are many reasons why old spying methods like number stations are used in an era of encrypted messaging apps, satellites ...

The regime is overmatched militarily, but still has tools for returning fire.

Cold War-Era Number Broadcast Reappears in Iran Conflict U.S. employs shortwave radio to contact Iranian spies amid communication blackouts ...

Numbers stations are mysterious, unsettling, and one of the strangest things you'll ever hear. They're shortwave radio stations that send coded messages to undercover spies all over the world—an odd ...

The station — first spotted by short-wave trackers who christened it V32 — is the first to have been identified broadcasting in Farsi in a quarter of a century. One briefly went live during the US ...

The Buzzer, also known as UVB-76 or UZB-76, has been a constant companion to anyone with a shortwave radio tuned to 4625 kHz. However, [Ringway Manchester] notes that there is now a second buzzer ...

The proliferation of Web-based radio stations should mean that a traveler with a modem and a laptop is never without up-to-the-minute news, conversation and music from home. But I found a major flaw ...

Over the next few months, the producers of Here Be Monsters will be highlighting some of their favorite unusual, eerie and mysterious sounds. Here, producer Bethany Denton writes about what she ...