As promised, here is an enhanced image scan of the mysterious figure first seen in Chapter 5. Larry Pratt's letter provides additional details about it, as well as a new direction of investigation that involves petraglyph ruins in Nevada. We're going to take one more crack at image enhancement and will show you the final results soon. I don't know exactly where all of this is going right now, but in an amazing sort of way, the ruins in Nevada tie in to what Keith Murphy is researching with his legends of "Rooftop Dancers". If it seems confusing to you, don't worry. In the next chapter, I'll connect the dots for you and provide the first draft of our grand unifying theory about what we think is really happening here. We call it--THE ZONE REALITY. Catchy, huh? Our crack team of investigators are tirelessly working 24/7 to put this together for you, so hang in there, and all shall be revealed. And now, Ladies and Gentlemen, Larry Pratt's letter.

September 15, 2001

Dear Bruce,

You can hardly imagine my stunned expression when I accessed your website and discovered the new pictures. Fortunately I was near a major university here in Nevada and could wrangle some time on a mainframe computer to do some analysis on these images. I could hardly contain myself. I have the preliminary data and, again my friend, I am stunned!

First, and perhaps foremost, the photograph appears to be authentic! I was initially amazed then skeptical when I noticed that the lighting on the figure appeared to be different than that on the building. So I asked one of my colleagues at the university to run some spectral analyses on the image using a digital multi-spectrum scanner. The spectral data indicate two very intriguing things. First, the figure is indeed lighted by reflected light from the building (the spectral signature of quartz halide lights is unmistakable on both the building and the form to the right). Second, the figure itself seems to be emitting a powerful electromagnetic radiation of a unique character. Part of the figure’s spectral signature closely matches the measurements we got from the infrared pictures of New York City. But there is something else. Something different. I’ve never seen anything like it!!

At this point all I can conjecture is that the embedded radiation is coming from the suit. There are traces of signals for polymers, reflective and refractive metals and, as yet, previously unknown mineral compounds. I can only speculate here, but the only name I could come up with is “polymeric platinum”. But the spectral signals are all scrambled. Somehow distorted. I know that seems bizarre but ever since that fellow Bronnis came into our lives the bizarre has become commonplace.

I’ll try to get to a location where I can do some image enhancement. But, if you happen to have the resources available through other channels I suggest the next step is to use a computer program called an integrated resolution algorithm. This process takes the data from each adjacent pixel, divides the area between them and creates a new pixel from the weighted-average value for the old pixels. It’s the type of technology NASA and intelligence agencies use to “magically” improve image quality. Images can be improved by three orders of magnitude but beyond that become suspect.

Well, I can’t stay online much longer. I’m still on my way to the Colorado Plateau but already I’ve had my view of reality shaken by what I’ve seen here in Nevada. Dr. Ecklestein and I have visited some petroglyph sites and they’re…...astounding! Petroglyphs are these enigmatic images peaked into rock surfaces by the paleocultures that inhabited the interior West for 10 millennia prior to the arrival of European-American explorers. Bruce, I swear to you, some of the carvings of legless anthropomorphic figures can only be interpreted as FLOATING above the ground!!!!!

Yours Truly,

Professor Pratt