The waitress Ruby having gone to serve the guy at the next table, Allison decided to comment "You know, its really odd. If it were not for the information that the DOD managed to find on the Internet, no one would know about Storybrook. This place is more cut of than anyone could possibly realise, so cut of that I find it suspicious".
"Could it be some clandestine government project?" mused Carter. He was interested in watching the guy in the next booth. He was clean shaven with cropped blond hair which grew down in a distinctive peak. His forehead profile looked almost as if he had horns. Carter almost felt that he recognised him.
"No" replied Allison, "No way, yet it does have suspicious similarities with closed government communities, and the people seem nervous".
"My thoughts exactly" replied Carter. The conversation at the next booth was getting agitated.
"That's not all that's suspicious" Fargo retorted, "I never got round to mentioning it because the satellite results took the labs time to analyse, and I've just got some additional info from the DOD, amongst others". Fargo paused "Item : the spectral analysis of the smoke indicated that it was a continuous emission spectrum, to which nothing natural fits. Item : there were weak emission lines, but for no natural elements, just every electron transition level in that visual range, and Item : the lines were shifted but not by the Zeeman effect". He paused.
"So?" asked Henry.
"The shifts were variable and in random directions, at least, they look random".
"Impossible, spectral shifts due to magnetic fields are regular and not random" replied Henry.
Fargo simply continued "Then the labs reported a Dark Matter burst during the event, and the DOD came clean that there had been a massive EMP burst. Yet nothing was damaged, so no way could it have been nuclear ... at least not as we know it. There were also reports of exotic particles, but the events were questionable and could have been due to The Artefact".
Even Henry was silenced by the spectral contradictions, and Dark Matter generation - how! Even the Eureka scientists knew almost nothing about it, beyond being able to detect it by the gravitational wave method.
Then Carter jumped up and headed to the conveniences like a fox after a rabbit.