Were you running missions you had run before, or new ones? Some missions in the system are bugged, and they'll go through the spiel but no contact will appear.
It used to be that those missions got flagged when someone tried to run them, but they don't anymore.
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this has happened to me once before and it cleared up after a short while.
I run several short AE where there is only 1 mission (typical city map) and then I can't start any new AEs.
I click on something that I've already run or a new one and it give the usual pop-up about you won't be able to talk to anyone and then nothing, the TF was not formed. Nobody on the team could start it and even reforming the team didn't solve the problem.
Was AE just down or is there a limit to how many AE's you can run in an hour or something like that?