Central Intelligence Agency

Office of Director, Washington DC, 20506

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12/19/05

MEMORANDUM TO: Special Adviser, Office of Director

SUBJECT: Spektr

Sir,

We have concluded the sterilisation of the Spektr station in Baghdad. All cryptographic coms equipment has been secured and all relevant documentation shipped red-bag to Andrews Airforce Base aboard our Suisse GeoTech Gulfstream.

Staff stationed at the staging base Sharjah have been ordered to stand down and relocate.

The body of Colonel Drew has been repatriated. The standard KIA notice has been issued to his family.

Officer Robert Koell remains officially MIA while we await identification of the headless body found by scavengers in a refrigerator at the garbage dump in Kasrah Waatash, a residential area northeast of Baghdad. However the West Point cadet ring recovered by our informant suggests the remains are indeed those of Robert Koell.

The Spektr project may be regarded as closed.

PRESENT DAY

A fireball lit up the sky last night, prompting panic calls to emergency services across the county.

Eyewitnesses described a blinding white light passing above the clouds, accompanied by a high whistling sound.

The dash camera of a police car involved in a traffic stop near Airway Heights caught blurred images of a flickering white light that, for a few moments, lit the sky bright as day.

Trentwood Police Dept, Spokane, released the recording of a call from gas station attendant Dwayne Mothersbaugh, who took a series of pictures of a white fireball passing behind trees.

DM: Some kind of meteor. It’s burning. It’s moving fast. And there’s a whistling sound, like a plane in a steep dive. Can you hear it? If I hold up my phone, can you hear the noise? It’s high. Hard to judge, but I think it’s high altitude. A fireball moving unbelievably fast. Seems to be coming down quick. It’s big, whatever it is. Big like a passenger jet. It’s passed behind trees.

DISPATCHER: Sir, am I to understand a civilian airliner has crashed into the woods?

DM: No. I mean I don’t know. It didn’t look like a plane. It was big. The object was big. I couldn’t make out detail. It was like a comet, a big ball of fire.

DISPATCHER: Has there been an explosion? Can you see flames?

DM: I heard a bang. Could be a sonic boom. It came down north, over towards Green Bluff. I can’t see flames.

Police are reluctant to discuss the matter further, but we understand an aerial survey of woodland near Green Bluff conducted by helicopter at first light located what appeared to be a large impact crater and small brushfires.

A police spokesperson refused to discuss rumours the impact site contained an item of scorched space debris. However, unconfirmed eyewitness accounts describe a large cylinder, possibly a fuel tank, at the bottom of the crater. Press speculate the wreckage might by the third-stage booster of a military rocket or the habitation module of a Soyuz spacecraft.