The News Leader again called for a speedy construction on the new site. And with that rejected bid, after appearing in fifty-five articles in fifteen years, Elko Tract disappeared from local history, never to be mentioned again. If you'll look to your right, Senator, you'll see where one of the subjects tried to ram his way through the tunnel walls. It took thirty darts to bring him down. If nothing else, it would mean less attention would be drawn to their appearance.
Many possibilities present themselves.
Some are, on the surface at least, outlandish. For example, if this were an episode of The X-Files , we might want to consider the Tract as an alien detention center. Aliens confiscated from around the country are flown in on cargo jets and hustled through underground roads to the buried trailers. Beltway bigwigs could take the red-eye, hit the Richmond International runway at dawn and be driven down the very same underground roads used to transport the drugged and drooling aliens. The CIA does have a massive compound this side of Williamsburg, and it's not impossible, I suppose, that they might be interested in expanding their operations.