At 7:20, the operators reported detecting a flight of planes due north, but the Duty Officer dismissed it as "nothing unusual" and the alarm went unheeded.

On July 9, OrcaLab reported detecting the calls of killer whales closely related to Springer, moving towards Johnstone Strait.

The IAEA also reported detecting particles of uranium enriched to 27% at the Fordu enrichment facility.

Last year Dr. Forrest reported detecting a low-mass object around the star Gliese 569 that could prove to be a brown dwarf.

Federal scientists working with Correlogic, a company in Bethesda, Md., recently reported detecting early ovarian cancer by analyzing the pattern of proteins in blood.

Last year, two groups of astronomers reported detecting a large number of "free-floating planets" in the Orion Nebula.

They reported detecting fluctuations in radio signals from a pulsar 30,000 light-years from Earth.

At the same time, another group of astronomers reported detecting an even more puzzling object, whose light appears to be unlike anything seen before.

And last month, researchers reported detecting cytomegalovirus, a relative of herpes simplex 1, in human arterial plaques.

Exxon reported detecting benzene and other harmful chemicals in early sampling at Mayflower but said air and water quality was within safe limits.