Disappearance of Deimos Cell (continued)


We then began satellite surveillance of the area, attempting to establish the location of the cell's vehicles. Conducting cursory scan's of the nearby forests proved fruitless. However, upon searching the town, a number of anomalous events were recorded. The number of children attending the school was abnormally large, especially since the catchment area was later established to extend only to Dupont itself, which has a listed population of 250. Secondly, there were large amounts of activity at the railyards. During this, I located the vehicles, which were visible from under the shed in which they had been parked in the railyard.

While Tyler-Hare conducted an interview of one of the sources for the new report, who provided a great deal of useful information, Romero and I infiltrated the railyard under cover of darkness, and gained access to the vehicles. I collected all of the removable items from either vehicle, namely

Van
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One Hermes unit, keyed to Charles Danson. There was some blood on this, we are still waiting on the typing of this.

Several tapes and disks, including radar logs from the van's array, two computer backup drives, and a small format video cassette from the videocamera, which was placed in the van.

A notepad containing shorthand. This was dispatched to the CHAFF team for further analysis.

Car
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The main body of the car was entirely empty. The trunk contained a crate of various soil samples and two shotguns. The soil samples were mundane, and we were unable to determine whether the shotguns had been recently fired.

We exited the railyard without being detected. Signs of our entry would have been minimal, some footprints in a fairly secluded spot at best. It is unknown whether the items were missed.

Later investigation revealed the following:

The radar logs include extensive footage of a large creature moving very quickly through the forest. The movements are too fast to be explained by any known terrestrial creature. The logs also capture the moment at which Johnson phoned in - the converging crowds are clearly visible.

The backup drives contain the logs from the devices installed at the Indian site.

The videotape (attached) contains footage of Zimmer, Danson, Umboto and Mitchell packing up an leaving the Indian site. As they are leaving, they are attacked by a humanoid dark green lizard-like being. This is believed to be the same creature observed on the radar logs. The creature kills the group, although only three of the kills are confirmed. We believe that Zimmer retreated to the warding circle he had established at the site, but was later somehow killed.

Investigation into the school did uncover anomalies in the number of children attending, and the high ratio of achievement. From the information that Tyler had gained in his interview, we concluded that the town was a Black Book operation, producing children who went on to infiltrate the US political-industrial-military block. The town also appeared to be linked to what are believed to be the operations of wild of juvenile Saurians.

From these conclusions, it was clear that Dupont represented a clear and continuing threat to Aegis. At this point we filed our preliminary reports, recommending that drastic action be taken. Duly, the town was attacked and
largely destroyed by a train crash engineered by other Aegis operatives.

Clean-up operations continue, including our subsequent recovery of one of the Saurian juveniles designated ALICE. The tracing and investigation of some 200 alumni of Dupont High continues. Suzanne Harker has continued operating with our cell, although she appears to be having difficulty coping with the deaths of her colleagues. Report on the recovery of ALICE will follow.
<REPORT ENDS (Filed by Agent Wright, Washington DC>

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