The phones never stop ringing.

Everyone says the same thing - until they don’t.

In the aftermath of a famous radio broadcast, a police dispatcher notices a pattern no one else is looking for. Among the noise and borrowed fear are reports stripped of speculation.

No lights. No sound. Only absence.

Stars going missing.

What follows is not a story about invasion, but about interpretation. About how easily the unknown is replaced with a convenient explanation - and how quietly the truth can be archived once the right answer has been chosen.

Report No. 1030 is a restrained, unsettling science fiction short story about silence, perception, and the moment history decides what it will remember.