Introduction

Some might ask the obvious question.

"Is this a hoax?"

And that question has a simple answer: No. I really wish that it was. My discovery, and my painstakingly detailed notes and drawings may look like the rantings of a crazy person completely unaware of what reality really is, but it's not. I wish I could go back in time, completely ignore the fire in the sky from which the wreckage fell, and just ignore that my discovery's implications: That we are not alone in the universe, and that the significance of man has been reduced once again. What's done is done.

Since the beginning of our true understanding of space, man has looked up at the stars and speculated about the existence on life on other planets. Sometimes, even speculating further that the life might be comparable to our own intelligence. Perhaps even greater. As a student in biology, I've always found this question interesting only on the level of understanding the likelihood of the arrival of life. The more I learned about the chemical laws that dictated life's various operations, the more I found it likely that life was probably common. However, I thought the question always to be mere hypothetical and completely untestable.

I did not expect the answer to my philosophical and hypothetical pondering to come crashing from the sky. Tonight, when I look at the night sky instead of wonder, mystery and the unknown, I will look upon the dark shroud of terror that encompasses our globe and only unknown that will cross my thoughts will be the unknown future to our very species.

This is not a rant. Only a warning. My only hope for publishing these notes here is to spread the knowledge that I have gained as fast as possible. Perhaps, despite their obvious superiority, they may have a weakness. We can only hope.

Another motivation for publishing my notes is that you know that I am not just some crazy guy on the internet. I really have proof. I have been a skeptic all my life, but when you have a specimen, you have a specimen. These notes detail mostly the biology of these creatures (in part, due to my fascination with biology and anatomy), as I am not able to place them within a certain phylogeny as of yet since I haven't been able to access any equipment that would allow me analyze their DNA. In this includes my detailed sketches straight from my notebook during the dissection process, descriptions of pieces of their technology, and of course, some of the many things I had to go through when I had to locate and retrieve these specimen in the hills right outside of Yosemite National Forest.

I will let my notes and my sketches speak for themselves.