“Now that we’ve got a glimpse, the smart thing to do would be close the lid back up, wrap this thing up—seal it off completely. Call Captain Jim, get a ride back to Charlevoix. Take the box back to the university, and go over it with every instrument we've got. That'll give us the best clues about what we have here, what we're looking at. God, we shouldn't have even opened it here; that might have been a mistake.”