Ghosts are never a logical explanation in Donnie's book; he'd be downright offended if Radley used those two words in the same sentence to his face!

"Hrgggh..." The uncertainty of their current location does have to factor into things. "Well, it's true that the station had some strange issues with the remaining power. Maybe it's just bled over to the ships, some kind of electromagnetic interference. It's already taking a long time trying to get some surface scans of the planet, after all."