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Five luminous globes flying in formation over a highway at dusk. In the background, the Northern Sierra, looking like grayish blue drapes frozen solid. Obviously filmed with a phone from a moving car. No soundtrack—might have been erased by the Intel people. They did that sometimes.

Terrence knew what to do. The five orbs became three. He added a soundtrack from another video. He inserted randomly generated images between some frames: some with numbers, others with jumbled words.

When he was finished, he uploaded it on his most cryptic site, and forwarded the result to Bergman. That would send the UFO conspiracy theorists on a wild alien goose chase for a while. And this was what it was all about, actually: the control of time and space.