That's an eternal conundrum with filters and filter configuration, to decide what is some sort of anomaly/glitch/sensor specific behaviour, and what is a real thing, that shouldn't be filtered out.

Even more interesting, when computers are involved, and you have to trust them that the filtering programs are not subverted. (and the "fun" thing is, pretty much every modern measuring equipment has some computers in it, or multiple ...).

And then an intelligent adversary can go and deliberately modify the signals telegraphing his presence so as to look (more) like genuine noise, too.

(Spread spectrum, anyone?)

Or now comes the hard part : the info is confidential..."NoForn"..

So I take it the Raharr will now have to space their new Terran friends

"Its the hardest thing I ever had to doooo.. Mew hew hew...."

Well... This isn't a Raharran military vessel, its civilian, so all the Raharr and Alliance members on board probably aren't cleared for knowledge about the Ghosts either. Heck, even among the military vessels it might only be the highest commander and his 2IC who are cleared together with Commander Zane and Quantum to know.

So, Zane could order total secrecy and confidentiality from his civilians, but given the circumstances and the serious implications of this discovery, the situation would be too unstable and the secret would come out sooner or later. No, it seem more likly that Zane have probably enough authority and respect to ask discretion and for silence in waiting for an official statement to make soon later.

Else, on a almost unrelated topic: I'm wonder if Quantum can read the raw data and see the anomaly like the squishy meatbags... do you imagine the existencial crisis that they absolutely cannot see the anomaly?

To be fair, this doesn't inform anyone of the Ghosts. The Raharr are aware of "The Ancients" and other life forms in the galaxy at large. This flight crew could easily believe they've found something else left behind by "The Ancients" or simply another alien species that found Earth, didn't make contact but left something behind to monitor or perform another function.

The greater secret of the "Ghosts" as an elusive, advanced alien species which abducts and experiments on other races can remain knowledge to the highest officers/officials. But it wouldn't surprise me if a big find like this may spark the next level of personnel being informed of the Ghosts.

"lse, on a almost unrelated topic: I'm wonder if Quantum can read the raw data and see the anomaly like the squishy meatbags... do you imagine the existencial crisis that they absolutely cannot see the anomaly?"

Depends on whether they have their own routines to process the data, and if they have been subverted too, or not ... An interesting thing to ponder on by anyone involved ...

having met a fair number of astronomers (it's a big hobby for my father, who even did some legit research into variable stars using his backyard set up for awhile. and he made a number of connections through conferences and such) i'm not surprised they wanted to look at the raw data. most i've met don't trust filtered/processed data until they know the methods used to process it, since such processing can easily inject artifacts into the results that aren't present in the original data. using not only an unfamiliar system but one based on alien tech and processing methods? they'd want to see the raw data and do their own analysis.