The full team needed time with the second communication before analysis could proceed usefully.
Rodriguez recognized this without being told—called a two-hour break after Rama, Sekar, and Nakamura described what they'd received. The description itself took forty minutes, partly because translating impression into language required finding words for things that had arrived without them, partly because the team asked careful questions ensuring they understood what had actually been communicated rather than what they were inclined to hear.
The distinction mattered. Extraordinary revelations attracted motivated interpretation—people hearing confirmation of what they already believed rather than what was actually conveyed. Rodriguez's insistence on precise description before analysis was good methodology and good discipline both.
What had been received, stated as accurately as possible:
