Boiled down: Miken had something for Mike1. Mike2 was after it on St. Patrick’s Day 2024 at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort on the coastline of the Pacific in the State of Oregon in the United States of America. Mike1, a court reporter from San Diego, California, was on a break from transcribing hard-luck stories. A salt-of-the-earth guy, he did not want or expect to become the focus of the planet. By the final report, he had acquired the codename «Reporter». That’s him in the green shirt on Bandon’s Sheep Ranch course. You could call him lucky to be alive.
An anonymous, handwritten riddle had been delivered to the Pentagon.
Were not our hearts burning within us at B while [ illegible ] talked with us and opened the [ illegible ] to us?
The ink used to paraphrase Luke 24:32 was radioactive, so the Department of Defense circulated copies of the enigma to law enforcement in every town and city whose name began with the letter B. The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s cryptanalysts, who were sure the illegible bits were «Jesus» and «Scriptures», threw a net of suspicion over the country’s religious zealots, who consumed no small percentage of the bureau’s budget. Meanwhile, its Financial Crimes Unit figured a trade secret had been, or would be, exchanged at B, wherever B was. Mike2, chief of police in Bandon, Oregon, pop. 3,323, was in charge of the search there. Bandon Dunes south of town increased the number of people to account for; its guests could be anywhere on six courses. Fortunately for Mike2, the resort’s webcams, popular with those who had played there and those who dreamed about playing there, saved her time and money.
What kind of person was Mike2? People said she killed a man who questioned why no American flagpin «flapped its gums» (her mixed metaphor) over her heart. Record-keeping was not her gift; she would sign paperwork willy-nilly as «Joseph Stalin», «Mae West» or fill-in-the-blank. Mike2’s codename was «Luke».
What kind of person was Mike1? The world changed on March 17, 2024, with him at its epicenter, but fame did not change him. Sure, he retired on the largess of grateful admirers, but his routines remained the same. Take the importance to the case of photographic evidence as an example. Our hero was not one for chronicling his life, or those of his loved ones, with a camera. Don’t ask his spouse about this predilection, she has invoked her right to remain silent. It is ironic that his star turn with an Unexplained Anomalous Phenomenon, aka UAP, aka Miken, has entered the annals of history thanks to cameras, both those hidden in nature by various governments and those of the paparazzi. Scenes seen around the globe (and beyond!), such as his reactions in the ocean mist after «mist putts», are not even framed on his living-room wall.
The news flash about peculiar levels of radiation hustled Mike2 to where the golfers roamed. Toxicity was not new to the territory belonging to the Coquille Indian Tribe. An 1855 treaty was not ratified by the US Congress and failed eventually to deliver compensation and a reservation to the Coquille, who indeed were «terminated» by the federal government from 1954 to 1989. The moving images viewed by Mike2 on Bandon’s 2,525 acres (1,500 unmanaged land, 250 conservation land) were supplemented by biometric surveillance, particle detection, good old-fashioned physical observation and other ways and means. The operation was nicknamed «MIST».
sources
Luke, Bible, 24:13-35 (60-80 C.E.)
Carlo Crivelli, The Annunciation, with Saint Emidius (1486)
Tom Doak, The Making of Pacific Dunes (2021)
dedicatee
Mike Gallivan