Tson A flash - a star appears on the background of space, before quickly vanishing as a space-time bubble slows down into visible view and collapses, revealing a small ship. A Sovereignty survey ship.
Keeping it's 'eye' on the 'fog', all sorts of scanners are used on it including basic tonal - with all non-essentials disabled and diverted to the sensors as the Muon-Catalyzed Fusion Reactors did their magic, trying to see inside the fog as they had a clear view of what was inside only seconds before.
After the results would come in, a shield would emerge from the projectors of the ship, as the non-essentials were turned back online and the crew could now watch their favorite episode of their old and cheesy UFO sci-fi.
(Also by 'results' i mean hundreds of teraqubytes of corrupted data xD )