Notes from the Field

Observation. Daniel Vasquez of Lubbock, Texas — Navy submariner; Subject 9930. Resistive substrate at the procedure; speaks the 22 sentences to Chaplain Pat Donohoe on his Subic Bay deathbed, spring 1971. Ch 13 / story 11.

Observation. AARI polar researcher at Vostok station; co-authors with Yegorov and Volkov. Has the 1998–2014 anomalous-returns dataset on her hard drive.

Observation. Retired math teacher, Asheville NC; born late 1946 / early 1947. Marina's father.

Observation. Novelist at MacDowell writing the strange-loop novel — invents the term "owl-as-binding" and finds she has not invented it. The Tomás-subject-line email is the hook.

Observation. Pop's dog. "The boss of everything," per Pop.

Observation. Eric Hauschild's daughter — 50s, Berkeley; daughter Iris in Montreal.

Observation. Pop Marquez's granddaughter. Eleven years old in the summer of 2003 in Alamogordo.

Observation. Ray "Pop" Marquez — Marisol's grandfather, Alamogordo, NM. Lotaburger cap, small black notebooks.

Observation. The Starbucks-encounter figure who is the codex's prompt — a Phoenix-area DBA who told the author his former leadership had the demonstrated capacity to travel to a specific star in Andromeda.

Observation. Sentinel Cartograph contractor, lead on the Lomas-aftermath cell. Author of the three-point Compression-Event memo.

Observation. Freelance journalist (ex-Verge), Crown Heights. Working the Lampreysong / Castellanos / FOIA-cluster investigation; noticed by the apparatus.

Observation. Section 14 media liaison; brushed-nickel hair, standing Sentinel engagement. The "we need a move on this" voice.

Observation. Senior surface-contact handler on the Pact desk, 25 years. Logistics Support Group cover, Suite 312, Reston.

Observation. Senior handler, Section 11, NM desk, 1980s–2010s. The eight-character redaction is consistent across the file; the full name does not appear in the public record.

Observation. Apparatus figure inside the upward chain (referenced across the inbox / Cell-4 channel).

Observation. Col. Daniel Wexler — working-group officer; d. 26–27 September 1961 at False Cape VA, ruled accidental. The "second set of footprints" — the working group's first attrition that is not a natural death.

Observation. Wexler's widow; Tucson 1976; d. 1994.

Observation. Working-group officer who took Wexler's seat after the False Cape incident.

Observation. Wesleyan historian; Bill Carlyle's niece; executor of his papers.

Observation. Lt. Col. (ret.) William "Bill" Carlyle — original-nine working-group officer 1956–72; memoirist 2003–05; d. 2019. His niece Helen is the executor of his papers.

Observation. Operator-class senior technician at the gathering depicted in story 14 / book ch 15; Veth-skenn's counterpart on the older interval.

Observation. Operator-class technician; the narrating voice of story 14 / book ch 15. Senior technician at the technicians' gathering; carries P5/P6 procedural memory across cycles.