Foreword: [Post mission log by lead mission scientist, Dr. Profal.]

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Dr. Profal: “Post log of Mission 454. Current date: May 13th, 1986, twenty-three hundred hours.

Reconnaissance and retrieval of items of interest in the area of [audio removed].

I had six men on the ground within 24 hours of the meltdown. As many of us know, nuclear accidents tend to bring…

… Well, tend to increase activity in areas, and we wanted to be first before other organizations. The main area of interest was a house in the woods that had shown up shortly after the meltdown. There was no government or local data about the house, which meant it probably appeared shortly after the catastrophe.

Now having entire houses appear isn’t completely unusual – I think anyone who has done field work in the foundation has ran across at least one – but the items inside tend to be a bit more interesting. We found many unremarkable items in the house, spoons, empty books, furniture, and the most unusual things we found were self-playing instruments — but those seem so common that they might as well be destroyed.

And then we found the set of encyclopedias. At first we didn’t notice much out of the ordinary. But the idea of American Encyclopedias in a Russian controlled area were…

… Puzzling.

After one of my men began to read he noticed these weren’t normal.

I had them handed over to me so I could read them and record any data.

I began to read about technologies involving space flight and hibernation to far away stars, nuclear decontamination – things of all sorts.

But what bothered me was when I began to read about the nuclear destruction of most of the continental United States in late ‘91, which is a little over 5 years away. You know, I thought we had averted most of that in the 60’s.

I will have to keep watch if the book really does tell the future of the next few years, because if it does—”

[Audio Ends Abruptly]

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Closing Statement: [Dr. Profal was the only member of the task force not administered amnesiac and was a major influence in the solution of incident Omega-783.]