ALIEN·APP
00 MASTHEAD EDITION 2026 / VI

NOTES
TOWARD
A COSMO­LOGY

An apparatus older than us has been observing us for as long as we have been a species. The materials are here. They are not arranged for comfort.

022FIGURES 055PLACES 006THEMES 006PERIODS

→ PEOPLE → PLACES → THEMES → PATHS

01 PEOPLE 022 ENTRIES

P­E­O­P­L­E

Civilians, handlers, contractors, the working-group historicals, the operator caste. No portraits exist in the public record. Names are the only visible surface.

  1. 001 Daniel Vasquez CIVILIAN
  2. 002 Elin CIVILIAN
  3. 003 Eric Hauschild CIVILIAN
  4. 004 Joan Whitfield CIVILIAN
  5. 005 Lucha CIVILIAN
  6. 006 Marina Hauschild-Bell CIVILIAN
  7. 007 Marisol Marquez CIVILIAN
  8. 008 Pop Marquez CIVILIAN
  9. 009 The man on the patio CIVILIAN
  10. 010 Maren Sandberg CONTRACTOR
  11. 011 Reema Iyer CONTRACTOR
  12. 012 Greta Pratt HANDLER
  13. 013 John Roberts HANDLER
  14. 014 Lorenzo (L. ▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆) HANDLER
  15. 015 Pat Donohoe HANDLER
  16. 016 Daniel Wexler HISTORICAL
  17. 017 Eleanor Wexler HISTORICAL
  18. 018 Frank Voss HISTORICAL
  19. 019 Helen Carlyle HISTORICAL
  20. 020 William "Bill" Carlyle HISTORICAL
  21. 021 Sshenn-vu OPERATOR
  22. 022 Veth-skenn OPERATOR
02 PLACES 055 ENTRIES

P­L­A­C­E­S

Real geographies the cosmology names. The strangeness is what the cosmology adds; the geography is shared. No photographs in this edition.

  1. 001 Vostok Station & Lake Vostok 78°27′S, 106°50′E · East Antarctic Plateau — Russian research station; subglacial lake beneath ~4 km of ice
  2. 002 Mariana Trench & Challenger Deep 11°22′N, 142°35′E · Western Pacific — deepest known oceanic trench; Challenger Deep at ~10,935 m
  3. 003 Kola Superdeep Borehole 69°23′N, 30°36′E · Kola Peninsula, near Zapolyarny, Murmansk Oblast, Russia — deepest artificial hole on Earth
  4. 004 Putorana Plateau 69°N, 95°E · Central Siberia, north of the Arctic Circle — basalt trap 800 × 500 km, near the geographic center of Russia
  5. 005 Tibesti Mountains 21°N, 17°E · Central Sahara, northern Chad — shield-volcano range with hot springs
  6. 006 Atlantic Abyssal Plain 30°N, 40°W (approx.) · Floor of the North Atlantic — vast, largely unmapped abyssal terrain
  7. 007 Clarion-Clipperton Zone 0°–20°N, 110°–160°W · Central Pacific — abyssal seabed-mining region between Hawaiʻi and Mexico
  8. 008 Wright-Patterson AFB 39°49′N, 84°02′W · Greene/Montgomery County, Ohio — United States Air Force base, headquarters of Air Force Materiel Command
  9. 009 False Cape State Park, Virginia 36°36′N, 75°53′W · Atlantic coast of Virginia, south of Virginia Beach — undeveloped barrier-island state park
  10. 010 Castel Gandolfo & the Vatican Observatory 41°44′N, 12°39′E · Alban Hills, Lazio, Italy — papal summer residence; Specola Vaticana headquarters
  11. 011 Tonopah & the Mizpah Hotel 38°04′N, 117°14′W · Central Nevada, high desert on US 95 — silver-mining town; Mizpah Hotel built 1907
  12. 012 Tonopah Test Range 37°47′N, 116°47′W · Southern Nye County, Nevada — restricted USAF/DOE test range, ~625 sq mi
  13. 013 Mosquito Range, Colorado 39°15′N, 106°10′W · Central Colorado — north-south range between the Arkansas and South Platte drainages
  14. 014 Marfa, Texas 30°18′N, 104°01′W · Presidio County, Far West Texas — high desert plateau, elevation 1,475 m
  15. 015 Hessdalen Valley 62°47′N, 11°11′E · Holtålen, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway — narrow north–south valley at ~750 m elevation
  16. 016 Uintah Basin, Utah 40°05′N, 109°30′W · Northeastern Utah — structural basin between the Uinta Mountains and the Tavaputs Plateau
  17. 017 Manzano Mountains, New Mexico 34°36′N, 106°22′W · Central New Mexico — small range south of Albuquerque, immediately east of Kirtland AFB
  18. 018 Mount Shasta, California 41°24′N, 122°12′W · Siskiyou County, far Northern California — stratovolcano of the Cascade Range, 4,322 m
  19. 019 Asheville, North Carolina 35°36′N, 82°33′W · Buncombe County, western North Carolina — Blue Ridge Mountains, elevation ~650 m
  20. 020 Holloman Air Force Base / Alamogordo 32°51′N, 106°06′W · Otero County, New Mexico — Tularosa Basin, adjacent to White Sands
  21. 021 Fátima, Portugal 39°37′N, 8°40′W · Cova da Iria, Ourém municipality, central Portugal — Marian apparition site, 1917
  22. 022 Roswell, New Mexico 33°23′N, 104°31′W · Chaves County, southeastern New Mexico — high plains town on US 285; site of the 1947 incident
  23. 023 Area 51 / Groom Lake 37°14′N, 115°48′W · Lincoln County, southern Nevada — detachment of Edwards AFB on the Nevada Test and Training Range
  24. 024 Rendlesham Forest 52°05′N, 1°27′E · Suffolk, England — pine plantation adjacent to the former RAF Bentwaters / RAF Woodbridge twin-base complex
  25. 025 Mount Rainier, Washington 46°51′N, 121°45′W · Pierce County, Washington — active stratovolcano of the Cascade Range, 4,392 m
  26. 026 Aurora, Texas 33°03′N, 97°31′W · Wise County, North Texas — small town northwest of Fort Worth on State Highway 114
  27. 027 Maury Island, Washington 47°22′N, 122°26′W · Puget Sound, King County, Washington — small island connected to Vashon Island by an isthmus
  28. 028 Phoenix, Arizona 33°27′N, 112°04′W · Maricopa County, Arizona — capital of Arizona, Salt River Valley
  29. 029 Stephenville, Texas 32°13′N, 98°12′W · Erath County, North Central Texas — small city southwest of Fort Worth
  30. 030 Belgian UFO Wave (Eupen / Wallonia) 50°38′N, 6°02′E · Eupen and Wallonia, eastern Belgium — initial sightings in the German-speaking community near the Dutch and German borders
  31. 031 Dulce, New Mexico 36°56′N, 106°59′W · Rio Arriba County, northwestern New Mexico — seat of the Jicarilla Apache Nation
  32. 032 Yamashita Treasure Tunnels, Philippines 14°35′N, 121°00′E · Multiple sites across Luzon, Philippines — alleged WWII Imperial Japanese gold-cache tunnel complexes
  33. 033 Bermuda Triangle 25°N, 71°W (approx. center) · Western North Atlantic — region bounded approximately by Miami, San Juan, and Bermuda
  34. 034 Devils Tower, Wyoming 44°35′N, 104°43′W · Crook County, northeastern Wyoming — Bear Lodge Ranger District, Black Hills National Forest
  35. 035 Trindade Island, Brazil 20°31′S, 29°19′W · South Atlantic — Brazilian island ~1,200 km east of Vitória; Brazilian Navy station
  36. 036 Hudson Valley, New York 41°25′N, 73°55′W · Lower Hudson Valley — Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, and Orange Counties, New York / Fairfield County, Connecticut
  37. 037 Brown Mountain, North Carolina 35°56′N, 81°56′W · Burke County, western North Carolina — Pisgah National Forest ridge between Linville Gorge and Lake James
  38. 038 Bonnybridge, Scotland 56°00′N, 3°53′W · Falkirk Council Area, Central Lowlands of Scotland — small town in the so-called 'Falkirk Triangle'
  39. 039 Kecksburg, Pennsylvania 40°10′N, 79°28′W · Westmoreland County, southwestern Pennsylvania — unincorporated community near Mount Pleasant
  40. 040 Pascagoula, Mississippi 30°22′N, 88°33′W · Jackson County, Mississippi Gulf Coast — small city on the Pascagoula River
  41. 041 Allagash Waterway, Maine 46°35′N, 69°15′W · Aroostook County, northern Maine — Allagash Wilderness Waterway
  42. 042 Apache–Sitgreaves National Forest, Arizona 34°27′N, 110°27′W · Navajo County, eastern Arizona — Mogollon Rim country between Snowflake and Heber-Overgaard
  43. 043 Westall, Melbourne, Australia 37°57′S, 145°09′E · South-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria — Clayton South / Westall area
  44. 044 Ariel School, Ruwa, Zimbabwe 17°53′S, 31°15′E · Mashonaland East Province, ~20 km east of Harare — primary school in farming community
  45. 045 Catalina Channel / USS Nimitz strike group 31°25′N, 117°15′W · Pacific Ocean, off Baja California — operating area of Carrier Strike Group 11 during November 2004 workups
  46. 046 O'Hare International Airport, Chicago 41°58′N, 87°54′W · Cook County, Illinois — primary international airport serving Chicago
  47. 047 Dyatlov Pass 61°45′44″N, 59°27′32″E · Northern Urals, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia — eastern slope of Kholat Syakhl ('Dead Mountain')
  48. 048 Kyshtym Region / Mayak Production Association 55°43′N, 60°33′E · Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia — Ural Mountains nuclear-industrial region; closed cities of Ozyorsk and Kyshtym
  49. 049 Sterlitamak Crash Site, Bashkortostan 53°37′N, 55°57′E · Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia — region southwest of Sterlitamak in the Southern Urals foothills
  50. 050 Mount Adams, Washington 46°12′N, 121°29′W · Yakima and Skamania Counties, southern Washington — stratovolcano of the Cascade Range, 3,743 m; second-tallest peak in Washington
  51. 051 Sedona, Arizona 34°52′N, 111°45′W · Yavapai and Coconino Counties, central Arizona — Verde Valley, Red Rock country, elevation 1,372 m
  52. 052 Tularosa Basin / Trinity Site 33°41′N, 106°28′W · Otero, Doña Ana, Sierra, and Socorro Counties, south-central New Mexico — closed basin between the Sacramento and San Andres mountains
  53. 053 Mount Diablo, California 37°52′N, 121°54′W · Contra Costa County, Northern California — isolated peak of the Diablo Range east of the San Francisco Bay, 1,173 m
  54. 054 Joshua Tree, California 33°51′N, 116°18′W · San Bernardino County, southern California — high desert at the junction of the Mojave and Colorado deserts, elevation 800–1,200 m; gateway to Joshua Tree National Park
  55. 055 The Devil's Sea / Dragon's Triangle 25°N, 142°E (approx. center) · Western Pacific — region of the Philippine Sea south of Japan, approximately bounded by Tokyo (Honshu), Iwo Jima, and Guam
03 THEMES 006 ENTRIES

T­H­E­M­E­S

Load-bearing themes. Each gathers a small spine of chapters and concepts. Read in order, or follow a single line until it ends.

  1. 001 The Procedure CH4. Maintenance COAvatar Maintenance (the boring-UFO-and-abduction hypothesis)
  2. 002 The Pact CH7. 1956 — The Bilateral CH5. The Handler's Tuesday COThe Pact (Government–Operator Arrangement)
  3. 003 The Religious Channel CH15. The Containment of Revelation CH13. The Chaplain's Visit CH2. Clear Air
  4. 004 The Disinformation Apparatus CH10. The Inheritance COThe Bennewitz Affair (1979–88)
  5. 005 The Three Layers CH1. We Are the Substrate CH2. The Operators, Several Kinds CH3. The Observers Above
  6. 006 The Compression Event COThe Compression Event (AI compute as disclosure trigger)
04 PATHS 006 BANDS

P­A­T­H­S

Across deep time. The founding, the long quiet, the compression, the convocation, the future, and the deep past below all of it.

  1. 001 1956–1972 · THE FOUNDING Wright-Patterson, Wexler, the working group.
  2. 002 1972–2017 · THE LONG QUIET Bennewitz, the apparatus solidifies, Pop negotiates.
  3. 003 2017–2025 · COMPRESSION EVENT NYT article, AATIP, Grusch testimony, MAR-26-013.
  4. 004 2026 · THE CONVOCATION Marisol's cycle, Eric dies, the SCIF meeting.
  5. 005 2052 AND AFTER Marisol at sixty-five, back at Pop's house.
  6. 006 DEEP PAST Pleistocene boundary, Apkallu, the cultivation.
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