There is a network of highly capable scientists exploring UFO phenomena. They work anonymously and in secret lest their reputations be trashed for dealing with such a fringe subject yet their findings do percolate upwards and outwards in varied ways. Two such scientists - Tyler a private scientist and inventor and James a public academic - accompanied by a religious scholar go to an alleged crash site in New Mexico with specially adapted metal detectors searching for debris. They find some and the academic, a molecular biologist, takes it back to be tested. The result is that it was not manufactured on Earth but what is more, it does not appear to have come from this universe. Not only extraterrestrial but from another dimension. At this point, the reader may be wondering whether I am describing a lost episode of the X-files but, in truth, I am reading a perfectly sober account of a trip undertaken by the aforementioned scholar of religion, D. W. Paskula, who has earned the trust of