Carter Roy

You wouldn't be alone in thinking this stuff is not real.

But keep this in mind.

There have been just enough successes to keep the project alive for years.

Today is meant to be a routine training run, an exercise to keep Viewer32 mentally sharp.

and a test so that Ed can determine how their skills are coming along.

Here's how today's session plays out.

Ed provides the viewer with a set of coordinates, longitude and latitude.

The viewer ideally has no idea where they lead.

Only Ed knows.

He even uses encrypted coordinates to ensure that nobody can cheat by memorizing a map.

The whole point is to see if the viewer travels to the right place.

During these training runs, an officer typically chooses the location of a well-known landmark, someplace that's easy to describe, the Great Pyramid of Giza, for example, or the Eiffel Tower.

That way he can judge the accuracy of what the viewer sees.

You know pretty quickly whether or not a person is looking at a 480-foot royal tomb rising out of the desert.

For some reason though, Ed isn't sticking to the norm.

He throws viewer 32, a curve ball.

The coordinates he gives today don't lead to any obvious landmark.

In fact, the target isn't a structure at all.

It's an object.

The Ark of the Covenant.