Description: Why did aliens deposit a device in Utah, then abandon their ship and murder each other in an orgy of slaughter? Why does the artifact the aliens brought sometimes alter a test subject's personality but at other times make the subject vanish? When terrestrial subjects--man or mouse--disappear, where do they go...and once gone, can they ever return? These are the questions both scientists and the military try to solve. While using the artifact, Alec McCaffrey, Lexie Ware, Joyce Brite, and Major Stuart Nye of NASA, discover why man has always been so fascinated by the stars, and that the seemingly omniscient extraterrestrials who call themselves the Matinor can make just as many mistakes as humans can. What the scientists and military don't know is that despite otherworldly errors, those vanished test subjects have become prime players in the Matinors' eons-long manipulation of humanity's destiny.
