I'm Not Like You Guys

Reading, writing, and trying to think clearly about a very strange documented record.

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A novel. The first two chapters are below; more are in progress. If a single argument is what you want, read these first — the documented record reads differently after them.

1. 1. The Summer at Pop's A girl, eleven, and her grandfather, in the desert, in July. Two weeks. One thing she doesn't understand.
2. 2. Clear Air A retired math teacher, dying, finally able to remember. His daughter at the bedside with a notebook.

Then — the documented record

Hundreds of named witnesses, court cases, declassified memos, FOIA returns, peer-reviewed papers, federal accident reports. Three ways in:

1. The creepiest of the creepy A hand-curated rank-order of the eighteen items in the public record that don't get easier with re-reading. Named documents, court cases, declassification numbers.
2. Explore the index Forty-nine real places (Roswell, Rendlesham, Kola, Vostok, Dyatlov Pass…), ninety-two figures and cases and ongoing phenomena, organized by category. Photo grid + bucketed lists.
3. Open the constellation The whole index as one graph. Drag to pan, scroll to zoom, click any node to enter. Filter by type. The shape of the discourse, visible.

Working draft. Read slowly.