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SURPRISING ABUNDANCE OF INDIGENOUS FLORA AND FAUNA, WHICH UPON CURSORY

INVESTIGATION POSES NO DANGER IN FACT, EDIBLE SPECIES PRESENT (SEE

ADDITIONAL REPORTS FOR DETAILS) TRANSPLANT OF EARTH SPECIES POSSIBLE

NOTABLE ANOMALIES: NO DETECTABLE TECTONIC ACTIVITY, BUT THERE IS STILL AN

UNUSUALLY STRONG PLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELD SLIGHTLY HIGHER THAN NORMAL

BACKGROUND RADIATION MEASURED, BUT WELL WITHIN TOLERABLE STANDARDS ADDITIONAL

GEOLOGICAL TESTING RECOMMENDED

NO TERRAFORMING EFFORT REQUIRED COLONIZATION RECOMMENDED

/END/

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FEBRUARY

19, 24 92 (MILITARY

CALENDAR)

FIELD REPORT A7 90 52-USNC ENGCORP

SUBJECT: GEOLOGICAL

EXPEDITION

FOUR, PLANET

XF-063

REPORTING OFFICER: LIEUTENANT W K DAVIDSON UNSCENGCORP/ UNSCMID:

0772 9654

THE NORTHERN PLATEAU REGION OF THE MIDLATITUDE LANDMASS HAS AN ABUNDANCE OF

GRANITE AND QUARTZ VARIETIES FORMING HILLS AND MESAS BREATHTAKING ONYX

QUARRIES

ADDITIONAL EXPLORATION OF THIS REGION HAS REVEALED LIMESTONE OF ORGANIC

ORIGINS, SPECIFICALLY AN ANCIENT CORAL REEF WITH A RICH FOSSIL HISTORY

CURSORY INVESTIGATION HAS YIELDED SEVERAL ANCIENT SPECIES OF UNKNOWN ORIGINS,

AND ENTIRE PHYLUM FOUND OF POSSIBLY ALIEN TAXONOMY

RECOMMENDATION: FOLLOW-UP SURVEY SPECIALIST REQUESTED IN PALEO- AND

XENOBIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY

/END/

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JANUARY

3, 2511 (MILITARY

CALENDAR)

ORDER

178864007

SUBJECT: SECURITY RECLASSIFICATION

ISSUING

OFFICER: REAR

ADMIRAL

M 0 PARANGOSKY, OFFICE

OF NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, SECTION THREE/ UNSCMID: 03659271

EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY ALL MATERIALS MENTIONING, REFERENCING, OR CONTAINING

REPORTS, SURVEYS, PERSONAL NOTES AND LOGS, IMAGES, OR ANY OTHER DATA

PERTAINING TO OR ABOUT THE PLANET CATALOG NO XF-0 63 (ALSO KNOWN

COLLOQUIALLY AS "ONYX") IS HEREBY RECLASSIFIED TO TOP SECERT, EYES ONLY

UNSC SYSTEMWIDE NETWORK PURGE AUTHORIZED BY OFFICE OF NAVAL INTELLIGENCE

(REF NO 0097833), UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MILAI ID: 477-SSD

/END/

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OCTOBER

22, 2 511 (MILITARY

CALENDAR)

ONI FIELD REPORT A84110

CLASSIFICATION: TOP SECRET, CODE-WORD

SUBJECT: STATUS OF RUINS IN ZONE

67

REPORTING OFFICER: LIEUTENANT COMMANDER J G ORTEGA, OFFICE OF NAVAL

INTELLIGENCE, SECTION THREE/ UNSCMID: 7631073

CONCERNING THE ALIEN RUINS DISCOVERED IN ZONE 67, WE CONTINUE TO FIND

EVIDENCE OF AN ADVANCED CULTURE WITH A SUPERLATIVE GRASP OF MATHEMATICS AND

ASTROGATION, WITH SOME POSSIBLE ARTISTIC REPRESENTATIONS THAT SUGGEST A

SPACE-FARING RACE (SEE ATTACHED DIGITAL IMAGES OF ONYX CARVINGS)

THEIR NUMEROUS HIEROGLYPHICS, WHILE AT FIRST GLANCE COMPARABLE TO ANCIENT

TERRESTRIAL AZTEC VARIANTS, ARE, IN FACT, NOTHING AT ALL LIKE

THESE PRIMITIVE EARTH COUNTERPARTSSEVERAL LAYERS OF

SYMBOLOGY SUGGEST A HIGHER-DIMENSIONAL APPROACH TO THEIR

LANGUAGE, IF IT CAN EVEN BE TRULY THOUGHT OF AS WRITING OR

LANGUAGE IN ANY HUMAN SENSE

TRANSLATION CONTINUES TO ELUDE ALL EXPERTS, HUMAN AND AI

RECOMMENDATION: INCREASED FUNDING AND EXCAVATION WILL UNDOUBTEDLY YIELD

HITHERTO UNKNOWN TECHNOLOGIES

ADDITIONAL NOTE: NO FURTHER INFORMATION HAS BEEN DISCOVERED REGARDING THE

GLOWING SPHERE DISCOVERED BY BETA COMPANY TRAINEES THE SUBSEQUENT

DETONATION OF THE SPHERE OBLITERATED ALL CLUES OF ITS ORIGIN

/END/

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SEPTEMBER

2, 2517 (MILITARY

CALENDAR)

ONI FIELD REPORT C384409

CLASSIFICATION: TOP SECRET, CODE-WORD

SUBJECT: STATUS OF RUINS IN ZONE

67

REPORTING OFFICER: COMMANDER J G ORTEGA, OFFICE OF NAVAL INTELLIGENCE,

SECTION THREE/ UNSCMID: 7631073

NEW FACILITIES WENT OPERATIONAL AS OF 0500 HOURS TODAY SMART AIS

FUNCTIONING IN TANDEM AS PER SPECIFICATIONS WITH SOME PRELIMIANRY SUCCESS ON

SOME OF THE SIMPLER, LOW-DIMENSIONAL HIEROGLYPHICS

CONTINUED EXCAVATIONS OF MILLIONS OF CUBIC FEET OF EARTH IN ZONE 67 YIELD

RUINED BUILDINGS, CARVINGS, AND TABLETS, BUT AS WITH THE OTHER REGIONS NO

DISCOVERIES OF A TECHNOLOGICAL NATURE DISCOVERED (OR IF THERE ARE, WE LACK

SUFFICIENT UNDERSTANDING TO DISCERN THEIR FUNCTION)

CARVINGS DEPICTING THE INHABITANTS OF ONYX STILL NOT FOUNDWHATEVER THESE

CREATURES LOOKED LIKE, FOR THE MOMENT, REMAINS A MYSTERY

THE SENIOR STAFF NOW BELIEVES THAT A SUDDEN CATACLYSM CLAIMED THE INHABITANTS

OF THIS WORLD UNKNOWN IF PATHOLOGICAL, SOCIOLOGICAL, OR RADIOLOGICAL IN

NATURE THIS MAY, HOWEVER, EXPLAIN THE HIGHER-THAN-NORMAL BACKGROUND

RADIATION LEVELS