A rock blasts off the face of Mars by a meteor impact. It ends in Earth's atmosphere and lands in what will be Siberia. It contains dormant biological organisms capable of entering living bodies. (TXF: "Terma") The Anasazi culture disappears in the Southwest. Some of their elders hide in one particular pueblo that contains magnetite, protecting them from the aliens. The Cigarette Smoking Man thinks of these elders as "the first shadow government." (TXF: "The Truth")