Colonel Henry Jacobson had been in charge of an investigation at Quantico in 1987 of the first sighting of The Beacon. Being an old family friend of Olivia Dunham, she pays him a visited after the arrival of a second Beacon. Hesitating to talk about the Beacon, Jacobson strongly recommend Olivia to stay away from it. Reluctantly he informs Olivia of the strange happenings during his investigation, which ended as the Beacon literary vanished into thin air.