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THE CHANI PROJECT COMPUTER-INTERFACED COMMUNICATION WITH OTHER REALMS CHANI THE PROJECT COMPUTER-INTERFACED COMMUNICATION WITH OTHER REALMS In 1904, researchers at a secret collider facility in Africa made contact with a parallel-universe entity via a computer-aided device and for five years received messages and predictions which now have imminent significance for humanity. A New Assignment t was the last week in June 2006. It was a slow month, and most of my assignments were submitted for final analysis, completion and then filing. There were a few new ones, but they were the usual two-to-three- day-at-a-time monitoring types and surveillance over the next few weeks. Nothing to get excited about. I had some leave due soon and was contemplating how I would spend some quiet time. I stared out the window; not that I had much of a view anyway, but it was a habit. I wasn't a smoker back then. Little did 1 know, that would soon change. My pager beeped "SC Oscar Now" ("Station Chief Office Now"). | wondered why she'd beeped me. My office was just down the hall. She could have just pressed the intercom button for my office and called. I remembered to put on my jacket before I left my office. "Damn," I thought. "I should have picked another tie.” It was just me and her. I sat down. "You familiar with Internet discussion forums?" she asked, knowing that it's clearly in my TOP (Tasked Operator's Priorities) and profiling assignment duties. But, then again, she was new on this floor; she'd only started as SC in In 1904, researchers at a secret collider facility in Africa made contact with a parallel-universe entity via a computer-aided device and for five years received messages and predictions which now have imminent significance for humanity. anuary. "Yes," I said, lifting a questioning eyebrow. "| want you to clear all your assignments for the next few weeks," she said. I was worried. She slid a single file across her desk. I opened it and hought: "Ah, just two pages; can't be too ‘heavy’ an assignment. Nothing to worry about here. This should only take a week." "On page two you will find the signed FARR form," the Station Chief said. FARR stands for File Authorization Release and Request.) "Wow!" | thought. "She's already signed it without even asking me if | accept the assignment." This only confirmed to me even more that she knew exactly what my TOP profile was. Then it hit me. The file must be highly classified (Echelon Access Only) or 00 large for her to carry around in her task pouch (briefcase). It was both. The file was huge—a box of files, in fact—with over 20,000 transcript pages, and it had Echelon stamps all over it. It also contained a few housand pages of research notes and copies of correspondence between researchers, technicians and scientists from various fields. There were a few data discs but, from their dates, | could see they were only added recently. To this day, I still think that if the filing clerk didn't know me personally he would have asked for a second signature on the FARR form. "A ‘few weeks’, she said? Damn, this will take months,” I realised. This is how | became familiar with a project called CHANI, and why I took up smoking that day. by "Acolyte" © 2011 Correspondence: c/- NEXUS Magazine PO Box 30, Mapleton Qld 4560 Australia JUNE - JULY 2011 NEXUS #55 www.nexusmagazine.com