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TO: PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN (100-918326)
FROM: Director, FBI (100-328103)
SUBJECT: DR. DEREK FAULKNER, Project Gaia
DATE: 07/12/87
On 06/29/87, the residence of the subject was placed under surveillance by FBI informants under my orders. The subject was observed leaving his home and was pursued by FBI agents. The agents stopped him at the intersections of Huber Street and Back Avenue, introducing themselves to FAULKNER and requesting information on the project being conducted in the vicinity of his home. FAULKNER was advised to stop announcing his experiments to the public so as to prevent widespread fear. He was told that the United States Government could strongly benefit from his services, as Project Gaia was making progress. The Bureau's proposal is for the United States Government to subsidize FAULKNER's research, so as to create a secret bunker located outside of the realms of this Earth for safety in the case of nuclear attack.
Improvements are being made to the Gaia system. After Test 53, FAULKNER's machine was proven to reliably materialize an yellow office building outside the bounds of reality. As our previous conversations have revealed, Mr. [MIKHAIL] GORBACHEV is planning to strike the United States. Based on FAULKNER's tests, we should be secure from GORBACHEV's warheads inside the Gaia system. FAULKNER is currently working on expanding the Gaia system further, including a series of randomly-segmented rooms resembling different building interiors so as to support more inhabitants in case of emergency. As of now, the Gaia system has only been used to store objects for future use in the real world. The machine is secure and requires high technical knowledge to operate — therefore, we did not foresee anyone ever infiltrating this secret place.
More thorough investigations have revealed that most objects stored inside the Gaia system appear to have different properties. Test 56 involved throwing an apple inside of the Gaia system, where it immediately turned changed color and became white. The liquid inside water bottles immediately turned a bloody red when taken into the system.
Of course, President Reagan, the mystery of this area is not the main reason for this note. The Bureau has proposed using it for storage and residence, but unfortunately, our plans came to a halt when we discovered a lone man, likely in his mid-twenties, wandering around the yellow office building. Agents apprehended him and inquired about how he discovered this place, but the man provided no answers. All he said was that he fell through the ground while out on a jog.
This unprecedented situation poses a major threat to Project Gaia. I am waiting for your response on how we should address this. The program has potential, but as long as people claim to be "falling through the ground" and discovering our secret area, development will have to stop temporarily.
FAULKNER unfortunately does not have answers to our questions either. However, he promises he will get to the bottom of this.
