"These energy patterns aren't like the ones I remember from the station, either, but we might be dealing with an unknown alien technology."

The second ship doesn't read, except as a very faint energy pattern.

Dealing with time energies you get the feel for energy patterns.

Take a look at those flat spikes in the energy pattern.

I'm reading a fluctuation in the energy patterns about ten meters to the left.

I don't recognize all the energy patterns, but whatever's in there is big and active.

Then she saw a slight skewing in the energy pattern.

He also reports that the energy patterns suggest some kind of industrial activity.

"I've pinpointed the source of the energy pattern," he reported.

He, too, had seen the almost ghostly energy patterns flickering all around them.