Delta Green-Lost in the Dark Operation Clockwork

Date: 27.2.1998

Agents and Friedlies:

• Julius Estéban (Agent Robert)
• Joseph Mulligan
• Anthony Norland
• Edgar Smith
• Theodore Weeden
• Russel Whigett

Case Details

Who?

Lead

• Professor Smith

The victims

• The archeologists

The distraction

• FBI agents Weeden and Whigett

What?

• Invetigations on a strange clockwork mechanism received by professor Smith
• The strange clockwork mechanism
• The archeological dig
• The teleport doorway to Greece

When?

27.2.1998

Where?

Aronhaltley, Texas

Operation Log

• Professor Smith had received a strange clockwork mechanism from a colleague
• The colleague was currently on a dig in Texas and had denied sending the mechanism
• Senior FBI agent Whigett joined in the investigation with Weeden
  • He had many questions about previous operations
  • Weeden was being investigated by the FBI Internal Affairs because of a shooting incident in operation Wise Man
• Using rental cars the trip to the remote dig was so long that we needed to rest for the night at a motel
• During the trip professor Smith made a discovery
  • The mechanism opened, revealing a starry vista
  • The stars seemed to be heading toward a point in the horizon
  • The artifact may be some sort of a compass
  • It was suspected to be of alien origin
• Whigett was giving the impression that this was an official FBI investigation and warning about the repercussions of interfering with it
  • It was decided to keep him in the dark about the true operation
• During the night some lights in the sky were spotted
  • They moved in a pattern like a flying saucer or triangle
  • Chasing them into the desert a landing spot with three depressions was found
• The next day at the archaeological dig it was made clear that no one had any memory of the clockwork mechanism or anything else suspicious
• The most likely locations for the origin of the clockwork were an abandoned mine and a dried up riverbed
• The FBI agents Weeden and Whigett were tagging along, disturbing our investigation
• When they were investigating the mine in the evening, we used the artifact and it seemed to be pointing to something in the riverbed
• In the morning the FBI agents had left
• In the riverbed we found a ruin, the corner of an old building
• Digging it out revealed a doorway
• The place reminded of a tomb
• In the first room was a human skeleton with some bronze objects buried in sand
• Deeper in was a stone door with no apparent opening mechanism
• It was opened using the artifact
• When professor Smith investigated in, the door closed and locked, trapping him inside
• The door could not be opened and we left the site
• Later we were surprised by a phone call from professor Smith
• He was in Greece, and said that the doorway lead into the basement of an old building
  • He claimed it was some sort of an ancient teleportation device
• Later when he had returned to the US, we buried the ruins
  • We marked it's location to our maps
• Dating the skeleton revealed it's age to be roughly 2000 years

Debriefing

Result of operation:

Causes for success/failure:

Lessons learned:

Improvements (processes, intelligence, resources):

Leads and loose ends:

• What caused the amnesia of the archaeological crew?

Discussion

• Robert's theory:
  • Activating the artifact let the aliens know where it was done and they came to check on the ruins and that their teleport was still hidden in sand
  • This is proof that aliens have been active on our world for millennia