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4. The Dead Drop USB

The USBs contained five identical copies of an audio file across them - clearly there's something important in there - of a Houston Mission Control conversation about a "localized burst of magnetic energy". Once again it's too long to repeat here, but over the short clip control converses with several space organisations and stations (including the ISS, European Space Operations Centre) about a run of odd, unprecedented events picked up by telemetrics. Nobody knows what they are or who is causing them, with the closest to what coming from the ISS: "There was a flash of red light that seemed to come from - uh - everywhere. And then it was gone." After that the crew is told to evacuate and "scrub this from the mission logs", meaning that someone involved in this exchange knows what's afoot. Aside from the base conversation, there's nothing unremarkable about the audio file itself - various people meddled with the sound's pitch, speed and direction and found nothing abnormal - meaning the meat is in the dialogue. This seems to point to some form of extra-terrestrial threat, but it's too vague to say whether this relates to the Cloverfield incident or not.