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☢ INCIDENT REPORT IR-2003-████

            INCIDENT NUMBER:

            IR-2003-████-██

            DATE OF INCIDENT:

            ████████, 2003

            *margin note: the date is wrong. also right. stop asking.*

            TIME OF INCIDENT:

            ██:██:██ LOCAL

            *see Note 7 re: time continuing after this point*

            LOCATION:

            ████████████████████, ██████

            Grid Reference: ██████ / ██████

            *margin note: the grid no longer shows this location. the grid is correct.*

            REPORTING OFFICER:

            ████████████████

            Badge No.: ███████

            *no longer with us in the conventional sense*

            CLASSIFICATION:

            ■■■ ABOVE TOP SECRET ■■■

            Compartment: PROTOCOL W

Section 1: Summary

On or around ████████████, personnel at ████████████████████████████ reported ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████. Initial response teams were ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████. The ████████████████████████ was described by surviving personnel as ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████.

At approximately ████ hours, a secondary ███████████ was observed moving toward the populated areas. All ████████████████ protocols were activated. ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████. Personnel were advised to ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ and to avoid looking directly at ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████.

The summary has been reviewed and approved by ████████████. Approval was granted posthumously.

PREPARER'S NOTE: I have redacted everything that seemed important and several things that did not seem important but turned out to be. The remaining text should convey the general shape of what occurred without conveying the specific shape. The specific shape is the problem.

Section 2: Timeline of Events

Times are local. Local is approximate. Approximation is generous.

00:00	Shift begins. Personnel report normal readings. No anomalies detected. The ██████████████ was described as "quiet." This word will later be revised. margin: it was not quiet.
02:17	Monitoring equipment registers ████████████████████████. Duty officer requests clarification from ████████████. Clarification is not provided. The duty officer files this under "equipment malfunction." margin: it was not a malfunction.
03:44	████████████████████████████████████████████████. Three personnel report ████████████████████████████. Two of these personnel were not scheduled to be on-site. margin: we still don't know who they were. we know what they were not.
04:██	██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████. The fire suppression system activates for reasons that remain unexplained. margin: the reason was that things were on fire. the things that were on fire should not have been on fire. the things were [REDACTED].
██:██	████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ margin: I was here for this part. I do not recommend it.
██:██	████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████. Protocol █ invoked by ████████████████. margin note in different handwriting: it was too late for Protocol [REDACTED] by this point. second margin note in the same handwriting as the first: yes I know. I signed the order anyway. — [REDACTED]
██:██	████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
09:00	Day shift arrives. The site appears ████████████████████████████████████████. Night shift personnel cannot be located. This is noted in the logbook and marked "PENDING FOLLOW-UP." Follow-up is pending. margin: it is still pending. it will always be pending.

Section 3: Witness Statements

Statements collected over a period of ██ days following The Incident. All witnesses were administered ████████████████████ prior to interview. Discrepancies between statements are noted but not explained. Discrepancies between statements and reality are noted and not discussed.

WITNESS ████ — DESIGNATION: ALPHA

Interviewed: ████████, 2003

"I was at my station when I heard ███████████████████████████████████████. I turned around and saw ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████. I want to be very clear that what I saw was not a person. It was moving like a person moves but it was ████████████████████████████████████. It looked at me. I do not think it had ███████████████████ but it looked at me."
"The thing I keep thinking about is that it recognized me. I had never seen it before but it recognized me. Like it had been ████████████████████████████████████."
INTERVIEWER NOTE: Witness became distressed when asked to elaborate. Witness could not elaborate. Witness could no longer identify what there was to elaborate on. Interview terminated.

WITNESS ████ — DESIGNATION: BETA

Interviewed: ████████, 2003

"There was nothing unusual. I don't know why I'm here. The shift was completely normal. I went home at 0600 like always. I'm not sure why you're saying I was there for ████████████████. I left at 0600. I always leave at 0600."
NOTE: Witness BETA's access badge logs show no exit event on the date in question. Witness BETA's access badge logs show no entry event either. Witness BETA's access badge logs show nineteen consecutive hours of readings from a location that does not exist within the facility.
INTERVIEWER NOTE: Witness BETA insisted nothing happened. Witness BETA ████████████████████████████████ during the second hour of interview. We have chosen not to include the details in this report. The details are in Appendix ██. Clearance for Appendix ██ is: ████████████████████████.

WITNESS ████ — DESIGNATION: GAMMA

Interviewed: ████████, 2003  /  RE-INTERVIEWED: ████████, 2003  /  RE-INTERVIEWED AGAIN: ████████, 2003

"I know what I saw. I know what I saw. I know what I saw. You can keep giving me ████████████████ and I will still know what I saw. You can keep asking me to ███████████████████████████████████████ and I will still know what I saw."
"It was ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████."
INTERVIEWER NOTE: Witness GAMMA's third interview was the most detailed. Witness GAMMA described ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ for approximately four hours without pause. The transcript has been classified at the highest available level. The transcriptionist has been reassigned to a department that does not appear on the organizational chart.

WITNESS ████ — DESIGNATION: DELTA

Interviewed: ████████, 2019

NOTE: Witness DELTA was interviewed sixteen years after The Incident. Witness DELTA maintains they were not present in 2003. The biometric records, psychological profile, and personal effects recovered from the site suggest otherwise. Witness DELTA has been informed of this. Witness DELTA has seen the evidence and continues to deny presence. We are not certain Witness DELTA is lying. We are not certain Witness DELTA is the same person who was there. We are not certain these are different possibilities.
"I was eleven years old in 2003."
INTERVIEWER NOTE: This is consistent with the biometric data.

Section 4: Casualties and Personnel Accounting

[INITIAL COUNT, 09:00] MISSING: 3 personnel. STATUS: Under investigation.

[REVISED COUNT, 11:30] MISSING: 7 personnel. NOTE: Four personnel initially believed to be accounted for were found to be ███████████████████████.

[REVISED COUNT, 14:45] MISSING: 7 personnel. CONFIRMED UNRECOVERABLE: 4 personnel. Definition of "unrecoverable" appended to Appendix ██. *margin: "unrecoverable" is doing a lot of work in that sentence.*

[REVISED COUNT, 17:00] NOTE: Headcount now complicated by presence of ███████████ personnel who cannot be verified as having ever been employed here. They have identification. The identification is correct. The personnel are incorrect.

[REVISED COUNT, 19:22] CASUALTY COUNT: See Appendix ████. Count is unstable. Count changes when observed. Count changes when not observed. We have stopped counting. *margin: stop counting.*

[FINAL COUNT, ██:██] FINAL CASUALTY COUNT: ████████████████████████████████████████████████████. This number has been reviewed and approved. Approval was difficult to obtain. We do not recommend thinking about this number for an extended period.

Full accounting: See Appendix ████ (Personnel) and Appendix ████ (Other). Note that "Other" here refers to ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████.

*margin note (pencil): the number on the appendix cover is different from the number inside the appendix. both are different from the number we buried. we buried the number because we could not file it.*
*margin note (pen, different hand): who wrote this*
*margin note (pencil, same hand as first): you know who wrote this*
*margin note (red ink): THIS SECTION IS CLOSED*

Section 5: Recommendations

The following recommendations are submitted by the Incident Review Board. The Board convened on ████████. Three of five Board members were present. The other two were present in a different sense. Recommendations passed by █-█ vote. The vote has been sealed under Protocol W.

■	Immediate reclassification of the site to UNINHABITABLE (CLASSIFICATION █). Site to remain sealed for a minimum of ████ years. margin: "minimum" is optimistic. there is no maximum.
■	Administration of Protocol W to all witnesses, first responders, and ████████████████████. Protocol W should be applied within ████ hours of exposure. margin: Protocol W was applied to seventeen personnel. Fourteen responded as expected. Three responded [REDACTED].
■	Termination of research project ████████████████████████████████████. All materials, findings, and ████████████████████████ to be transferred to ████████████████████████████████████ for containment. The research team is reminded that "termination of the project" does not mean what they think it means. margin: it means exactly what they think it means.
■	Revision of safety procedures for ████████████████████████████████████████████████. Specifically: personnel should not be permitted to ███████████████████████████████████, and under no circumstances should any personnel ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████. These seem obvious in retrospect. margin: they were obvious before. we knew. the project lead knew. the project lead felt the benefits outweighed [REDACTED]. — Director
■	Do not repeat this. ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████. We are aware that recommendation #█ appears to contradict this recommendation. The contradiction is intentional. The contradiction is the recommendation.
■	This report should not exist. Its existence is a procedural requirement. Its existence is noted with displeasure by the ████████████████. The report has been informed of this displeasure. The report acknowledged it. margin: the report should not be capable of acknowledging anything. we are looking into this.

Appendices

The following appendices are referenced in this report. Access requires individual clearance verification for each appendix. Requesting access to more than three appendices within a 24-hour period will trigger ████████████████████.

APPENDIX	TITLE	CLEARANCE	STATUS
A	Site Maps (pre-incident)	CONFIDENTIAL	AVAILABLE
B	Site Maps (post-incident)	████████	RESTRICTED
C	Personnel Records — Accounted For	CONFIDENTIAL	AVAILABLE
██	Personnel Records — ████████████████████████████	████████████████████████████████████	RESTRICTED
██	Definition of "Unrecoverable" (revised)	████████████	RESTRICTED
██	Witness GAMMA — Full Transcript	████████████████████████████████████████████████	SEALED
██	████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████	████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████	SEALED
██	████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████	████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████	does not exist in any filing system we are aware of. appears in the index anyway.

To request access to restricted appendices, submit Form ████-██ to the Records Division. The Records Division will acknowledge receipt of your form within ████████ business days. Acknowledgement of receipt does not constitute approval. Approval does not constitute access. Access does not constitute safety.

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      PREPARED BY: ████████████████████████ / Records Division

      REVIEWED BY: ████████████████ (posthumously)

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