Cicada VZ Joseph Haryana Alexander same thing

Joseph Haryana Alexander. He's got a PhD from Oxford, he is possibly from a military family, has travelled a lot and is from a romany traveller family. He has been at academic literature conferences so we know he's real, but he might be writing under a pen name (though he uses that pen name in his conference appearances). [not fiction] He is both highly academic but also marginalised and writes about that conflict. He is very weird and seems to live a sort of travelling writer lifestyle.

We found the first clue, that led us to a geocache in the middle of nowhere in Germany [Coburg DE]. Inside we found two coded messages, one was easy to decipher and the other we're still working on. The first one said

"You found the first V
Ice cream for anyone who can find me
I look forward to meeting you..."

[Frankfurt DE]

nothing new / far behind / suspension even / etc more nothing