As the lights intensify, the figures in the video stop. They don't run. They don't hide. They simply stand still, their heat signatures turning from yellow to a ghost-white as they are bathed in the glow.

When the encryption was finally cracked, it didn't contain documents or spreadsheets. It contained 44 minutes of high-definition thermal footage and a single audio log dated November 12, 1998.

The video files within the archive show a grainy, infrared world. Three figures move through a dense forest. Suddenly, the screen washes out in a brilliant, searing crimson. In the infrared spectrum, the "lights" don't look like fire; they look like liquid, pouring down from a point in the sky that the camera cannot quite center on.