Research unit / technical drawings

Diagrams

Prepared by Dr Lyle Faraday from witness description, frame enhancement and "a strong sense of how it would have to work". Not to scale. Scale is one of the things they don't want you to have.

Fig. 1. Section through a Beryl-class disc as reconstructed from the tape. The kitchenette is assumed because "they're up there a long time".

Fig. 2. The probe. Dr Faraday notes that a civilisation capable of interstellar travel has "clearly never heard of warming it up first".

Fig. 3. The extraction sequence. Total elapsed time eight minutes. Management notes the dogs also hum at the postie.

Fig. 4. Decoded geometry of the Glyph. The reading "a cow, from above, worried" is derived from the angle of the head, the position of the legs and the general atmosphere.

Fig. 5. Hybrid Vitality Index. Jaxon's father was a Tall Grey. Jaxon is tall. Dr Faraday calls this "the whole case, really".

Fig. 6. Visitor hierarchy. The Men in Beige report to the Bureau. The Bureau reports to the Reptilians. Keith reports to nobody, which is suspicious in itself.

Fig. 7. The Faraday Unit reference scale. See On the Faraday Unit for the full attempt at a definition.

Fig. 8. Field identification of a Bureau officer. If approached, do not give them the tape. See the countermeasures.