SRPA Research Journal 3

Property of Dr. Julia Cathcart

Station: SRPA 7

Date: December 21, 1952

''My team and I continue to experiment with the new gray tech components recovered in England, the Netherlands, Germany and France. While these components appear similar on the surface to the ones previously collected, they respond in remarkably different ways when probed with electrical stimuli.'' Our first breakthrough came today while attempting to combine one of the pieces from England, component E-04, with one of the earlier recovered pieces from Chicago, component A-09. We were connecting wires between the two pieces, when they simultaneously began shaking violently, and one of them extended what looked like a metallic telescoping tentacle that latched onto and fused into the other component. The two components proceeded, on their own, to transform in shape in an elaborate and astounding process. They first expanded in size, then folded and bent and came apart into what appeared to be more than two hundred pieces. The pieces then reassembled themselves seamlessly into a single, larger new component. The resulting object somewhat resembles an ornamental vase, except that there is a cool white flame emanating from the bottom, and even now as I write this the object is inexplicably floating in nid-air above our laboratory table.