During the drive to work that morning, Air Force Colonel Roger Barrett thought again about the highly unusual events which had taken place over the last few weeks.
As the commanding officer of the remote, desert missile testing facility, he and his team were responsible for scheduling and conducting the tests of many different types of military hardware.
For the past few weeks, he and his team had been working with the Army on preparing for the testing of some new classified missiles. He hadn"t been able to learn much, other than they were highly classified and exceptionally large. It didn"t seem to make much sense. His facility was typically used to test smaller weapons, missiles that would only travel a few hundred miles at most.
In the case of larger missiles, these tests were usuall
