Cracks appear in the wall of secrecy involving crash/retrievals of non-human intelligences, the data breaches resulting from a schism between opposing factions of gatekeepers in a shadowy maze of unauthorized special access programs. Among the particulars exposed by whistleblowers is the startling revelation that after decades of analyzing off-world materials, our brightest minds remain at a complete loss, not only due to the perplexing wreckage but also as to why such advanced beings were so interested in a desolate expanse of scrubby desert in New Mexico.