A dark gray government helicopter from Twenty Nine Palms Marine Base nearby was soon hovering over Hitchcock, California. A few pedestrians looked up to the military issue craft as it crossed over at two hundred feet up and started descending close to the field behind local library. Mulder just cocked his head upward with narrowed eyes and his short hair thrashing in the down current from the copter's blades. It landed twenty feet from him like a metallic metal beast from prehistory and even before the blades shut off, a side hatch popped open and FBI Director Walter Skinner poked one leg out for the ground and then swung his other leg out with it. Looking up to Mulder, an exasperated sigh came from him drowned out by the helicopter.
"Okay," He started. "You want to tell me how an agent can vanish looking for the agent she was sent to locate while that missing agent pops up out of no where in her absence."
"I think she was most likely affected by residuals of extra-terrestrial, possibly paranormal, energies of a radioactive nature that affected her molecular nature and resulted in a body wide alteration to her cellular composition and overall physical stature." Mulder spoke casually as the helicopter engine died down and its pilot and co-pilot checked their instruments. His hand pressed a manila envelope into Skinner's direction. "October 14, 1958 – Nancy Archer reported observation of a ball of light resembling a quantum causality in space descend into the road before her car and then the image of a vast humanoid presence reaching for her. She fled only to return to the exact location less than an hour later with her husband and the local sheriff."
"Flying saucer?" Skinner read the original account written by a former agent from the 1950s named Arthur Dales.
"Technically, a flying orb reported by Archer as a hundred feet wide." Mulder continued. "There was nothing to be found when she returned, but according to her manservant, she took her husband out to look for it again, only this time she didn't come back. Her husband, Harry Archer, was initially believed as having killed her and dumping her remains, but then she mysteriously appeared on the grounds of the family estate, unconscious with scratches in her throat and her necklace missing. Her family doctor thought she had radiation poisoning, but the incident took on more… bizarre nature as she swelled in size to fifty feet in height."
"What's this all got to do with Agent Scully's whereabouts?"
"I think she was affected in the same way by the residual energies of that craft left behind on Nancy Archer's body buried under covert conditions on a portion of her property." Mulder continued. "I have Mrs. Archer's death certificate, but the papers on where she was buried have never been filed." He turned and looked from the incline down from the hospital looking over the second floor roofs of town. The finger of his left hand extended to the direction of the motel two blocks away. "Last night, an unidentified explosion took out the back of Scully's motel room and the adjoining back of a Laundromat behind it. The perimeter of the explosion measures nineteen feet: the same width of Scully's room and the appropriate size for a woman of Scully's size increased to fifty feet tall."
"Mulder…" Skinner and his agent took a walk parallel from the helicopter. "Have you ever heard of a newspaper editor named Tony Vinchenzo? He ran a newspaper in Chicago called the Independent News Service and he had this crackpot reporter named Carl Kolchak…"
"I read Kolchak's column in the Chicago Tribune." Mulder confessed.
"I should have known." Skinner exhaled a bit and lowered the Archer file by his side. "Kolchak was constantly twisting these extra-ordinary events into incredible stories and it did nothing but get him in trouble with law enforcement agencies in five states along with the FBI, the CIA and Military Intelligence. You remind me a lot… a lot of him. You're supposed to examine the veracity of these tales, but yet, you've got it into your head they're proof of otherworldly encounters."
"Nancy Archer wasn't the only case like this." Mulder stopped, took the file from Skinner and leafed through it. "May, 28, 1959 – military officers on maneuvers near Candy Rock, Colorado reported seeing a saucer-shaped craft speeding into the sky. An hour later, a gigantic figure resembling local Emmeline Raven-Pinsetter was witnessed by two hundred and fifty-eight witnesses coming through town and vanishing into the desert. Two hours after the sightings, she came out of the desert quite normal and quite debilitated for experience. Her and her husband are still within the government's Witness Protection Program.
"Hainesville, Ohio, June 12, 1965, not one sighting but several of descriptions of at least six different gigantic individuals supposedly terrorizing the town." Mulder continued. "The local sheriff was so annoyed by the reports that he called the governor to send the state police to help him escort the individuals out of town, but by then, these reported terrorists were down to a more manageable size. On February 25, 2000 of last year, there were twelve unconfirmed reports of a woman of tremendous size in Captain's Stu's Funland in Santa Clarita, California…"
"Mulder, do you have a thing for giant women?" Skinner asked the question.
"Glen Manning…"
"Glen Manning never existed." Skinner's tone slightly changed.
"Then why does the Pentagon have a sealed file on this non-existent man from Nellis Air Force Base?" Mulder wanted to know. "Why did the United States Military relocate or imprison seventy-three people from Las Vegas and Crucero, Mexico from 1957 to 1960?" Mulder briefly looked away exasperatedly and then looked back once more to his superior. "Even if you ignore the incredible aspects of these cases, we are faced with reports of cover-ups of incidents that the government considers the public is not ready to accept. Since when has the Pentagon forbid us from records connected to a case? When are we going to open our eyes and realize just what the evidence is telling us instead of what we are being told what to believe? Agent Dana Scully is missing and I am convinced beyond shadow of a doubt that her disappearance is tied to events that have been cloaked behind rumor and time, time to affect the memories of witnesses."
"There's one glaring hole in your theory and evidence…" Skinner blinked a few times tiredly. "Where does a fifty-foot tall woman hide?"
"Anywhere she wants to…" Mulder cracked out loud.