 Based on the article, does McCray know he is being watched?
McCray was ship's navigator, plotting course corrections—not that there were any, ever; but the reason there were none was that the check-sightings were made every hour of the long flight. Someone was watching Herrell McCray, with the clinical fascination of a biochemist observing the wigglings of paramecia in a new antibiotic—and with the prayerful emotions of a starving, shipwrecked, sailor, watching the inward bobbing drift of a wave-born cask that may contain food. Their job was to watch McCray, and they would do their job; and even more, not one of them could have looked away to save his life from the spectacle of a creature as odd and, from their point of view, hideously alien as Herrell McCray.
 No, or else he would have tried speaking with Hatcher and his team.
 No, or else he would have tried speaking with Hatcher and his team.  Yes, because he was trying to escape where he was.  No, or else he would not have tried to establish communication with the woman who appeared.  Yes, because he was trying to radio Jodrell Bank so he could safely escape.