Episode 2: The Gate Swings Open

***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE***

UPDATE FROM THE FACILITY

RE: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF FIELD AGENT CLINTON "CLINT" KOWALSKI.

Following the disappearance of Field Agent Clinton "Clint" Kowalski in October 2012 in a remote southern Utah canyon a party of security specialists including Robert "Rock" Abslab, Chief Security Officer for The Facility, were immediately dispatched in an attempt to ascertain Kowalski's fate.

Until recently, the only clues found were a fragmented video camera memory card (readers are recommended to view archival footage HERE before proceeding) which seemed to show Kowalski's discovery of a number of ancient ruins and structures of undetermined origin, as well as documenting his growing paranoia that he was being followed.

Over a period of several weeks, the investigation into Kowalski's disappearance became increasingly fruitless and search efforts were scaled back to include just two low level local operatives who, for security reasons, are identified only as Agents B12 and C14.

The marker over Kowalski's phone.

On May 27, 2013, while on routine patrol in a side canyon, Agent C14 found an unusual cairn of stones. Facility policy (See Directive 34-23/b) mandates that all such artifacts in areas classified as Level 4 (locations of high probability of non-terrestrial activity) be excavated and recorded immediately in accord with Facility protocol.

Beneath the stone cairn, at a depth of 23 cm, Agent C14 uncovered a damaged Facility-Issue Smartphone Model 11 with the serial number 111445667BG1182, which was later verified as having belonged to the missing Kowalski.

Not unexpectedly, environmental factors had caused a great deal of damage to the phone's internal memory card. However, the Hard Data Recovery Unit (HDRU) at The Facility was still able to extract some quantity of useful, and in the words of Facility Director Dr. Quentin Bloor, "rather unsettling information" from the phone's digital camera as well as from the standard on-board journaling app.

While much of the phone's information remains under Deep Classification Status at The Facility's laboratories pending further study, the following fragments of journal transcripts and their attached photographs (click to enlarge) have been cleared for public release (notes from The Facility are bracketed in red). The Facility apologizes for the breaks in text data:

JOURNAL: OCT. 28 2012:

Purple sky. No idea where I am anymore. Think I'm still in the same canyon but surroundings seem wrong. I [data unrecoverable] Landscape similar but usual trails [data unrecoverable].

How is this possible?

JOURNAL: NOV. 18, 2012:

Found what appears to be a version of the Mayan Calendar lodged against a tree in floodplain of the river. In southern Ut? How is [data unrecoverable] After meeting with [data unrecoverable] I have come to the conclusion that [data unrecoverable] night sky seems darker than usual, constellations somehow disordered [data unrecoverable]..

JOURNAL: DEC. 28 2012:

Another Christmas away from home. Wish I could tell [data unrecoverable] her. I miss being [data unrecoverable]. Irrelevant now I guess as the [data unrecoverable] was right and the pinheads at NASA were full of [data unrecoverable]. Radio telescopes and other data sources were as blind as [data unrecoverable].

JOURNAL: JAN. 27 2013:

Green Flames!

Campground swept away in a storm of flames. Green Flames... GREEN FLAMES! Trying to get some pics but it's so hot I [data unrecoverable]could have done? Too late now. If it's like this here in this remote place major cities must be [data unrecoverable]. I have either lost my mind or [data unrecoverable]Food supplies running low. Surviving on edible plants and the occasional lizard.

It cannot be.

JOURNAL: JAN. 30 2013

Sanity must be slipping because of hunger [data unrecoverable] similar to illus[data unrecoverable] Quetzalcoatl. 100 feet tall moving thru flames like some sort of [data unrecoverable] when the calendar ended? 

JOURNAL: MAR. 18 2013:
I have been befriended by [data unrecoverable] fed me and gave me information that our theories regarding [data unrecoverable]  not what data originally predicted. The time/space coordinates of what we [data unrecoverable] horribly wrong. You are NOT safe where you [data unrecoverable] dimensional bleed-though. 

JOURNAL: APR. 24 2013:

Hunting party nearby. Blue stone arrowheads? Ammo low. Seeking shelter near [data unrecoverable] but buried phone for anyone who [data unrecoverable] Come get me. Come get me. Come get me. The gate is [data unrecoverable]

TO BE CONTINUED...