The American Device

The American Device

Below is a list of the "facts" presented by an anonymous user on /b/ who claimed to have been hired to transfer classified government documents (U.S.) from microfiche to a modern medium (presumably digital hard drives). He was contracted along with roughly 70 other people to do this work in 2007. Everything that he was reading and copying was written in a cypher/code, but after working with the information for long enough he was able to decipher what he saw, claiming that it was not a particularly difficult code (he had a background in cryptography). He did not take any notes, for obvious reasons, but tried to remember as much as possible.

His biggest discovery was from a number of documents involving 'The Device'. For description's sake, he referred to any corresponding parties within the documents as 'voices'. This simply means that any government officials that are reporting their involvement or interactions with the project are not listed by name, but do describe their experiences in detail, and he could tell that they were different people. These are likely debriefing documents.

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The basics are as follows:

- there is a large, square object located on Earth, specifically on 'American property'. This description may mean that it is not actually within the continental United States (possibly some acquired territory or research base elsewhere).

- The object is mechanical or technological, so it is referred to (by the original poster) as The Device. It is roughly 4,000 square feet, and consists of two levels, though apparently the separation of the two levels is very strange and is not described well in the documents.

- The Device was discovered by the Americans in 1941 (but there may have been knowledge of it earlier than that). Strangely, it is described as 'out of sync' with its surroundings. Botanists and geologists testing the area around the device concluded that it has been sitting where it is for an extremely long time (the author hinted at hundreds of thousands of years), but apparently these aspects of The Device are hard to describe as well.

- Quite a lot of modern knowledge has been inspired or copied from the Device, Interestingly, the author pointed out that nothing has actually been reverse-engineered. This is because it is apparently impossible (or extremely difficult) to disassemble or dismantle anything on or within the Device.

- The author described the Device as seeming to always be 'on', but operating at very low power. He likened it to a facility running on emergency lights after a power outage. However, the technicians in charge do not know if this is the case (it may simply require very little power).

- Perhaps most important is the 'door' or 'portal' inside the device which will be described further in the following posts.

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The original poster went into further detail about his tasks, what he was able to remember and why he felt the need to share it on a message board. Like many others he felt comfortable revealing 'secrets' since even if this was noticed by the government, it is unlikely anyone would believe him, or know specifically who he is (70 other people were on the same project).


He was also quick to point out that nothing he ever read mentioned anything about aliens. Obviously the Device was not made by our civilization, but the documents never once mention aliens or spaceships or anything of the sort.

After a lot of questions and the like from others on /b/ he felt encouraged to reveal some of the really strange things that he had read. There were basically two major revelations that stuck with him. He admitted that he is not an extremely smart man (outside of his field), so the fist revelation has bothered him for years because he cannot get his head around it. Essentially, many of the 'voices' in the transcripts describe the device as being the 'only actual thing in the universe that is real' and 'more real than anything else we have ever quantified'.

The second revelation was more of an event. At some point in the 70 year history of the American interaction with the device, four people were inside when a 'door' opened. This was unlike any type of door the way that we would visualize it, but those involved all describe it as a portal or gate, etc.  Once fully open, the four people actually saw themselves on the other side. Not reflections or projected images, but four tangible near-duplicates (apparently there were tiny variations, but they were positive about the others being like copies of themselves). They were able to fully interact with their doubles and communicate with them, though the author either chose not to include the details of their talk, or they simply aren't recorded in the coded text. The major thing that he added was that this was completely and utterly life changing for the four involved, in that it filled them with great humility and understanding. Almost as if they now knew that they were nowhere near as important as human beings believe themselves to be. Apparently one of the four never shows up in the documents again after this event.

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So that's that. Could be a talented writer trolling people online... could be a completely honest guy who felt the need to share.  The thread actually "404'd" out of nowhere before much more could be addressed, but it was fascinating to imagine.