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LAPIDARY OF THE INTERIOR — FIELD REPORT
Report No.:FIELD-REPORT-0041
Fragment:OB-05
Event:Liquefaction Event 2
Date of event:[non-linear]
Date of report:Filed within 72 hours of event
Reporting party:Lapidary representative (present during event)Holder account appended

LAPIDARY REPRESENTATIVE'S ACCOUNT

I arrived at the holder's facility for a scheduled monitoring visit. The visit was not an attempt; we were conducting baseline measurements and preparing for a frequency induction test planned for the following day.

The fragment was as documented: matte surface, below-ambient temperature, mass consistent with prior measurements. The holder and I were completing temperature logs when the holder said "here." I looked up.

The transition appeared to take approximately two seconds — from solid to whatever it becomes. The word liquid is accurate and inadequate simultaneously. Accurate because it is not solid. Inadequate because it does not move the way liquids move. It does not reflect. It has depth that does not match the fragment's physical dimensions. I have now seen this twice. The inadequacy of the description is consistent across both observations.

I retrieved the depth probe from the monitoring kit. The holder said: "I wouldn't." I lowered it anyway.

The probe read normally to a depth of approximately 5cm. At 5cm the readings became erratic — values outside any calibrated range, then values of zero, then values the monitoring software flagged as instrument error. I withdrew the probe at 7cm. The probe was at the physical limit of the fragment's depth. It had not reached a bottom.

The event ended at 1 minute and 37 seconds from onset. The surface became solid. The transition appeared to take less than one second — faster than the onset transition. The room temperature had dropped approximately 2°C.

The probe was undamaged. Its readings resumed normally immediately upon withdrawal from the fragment surface.

I sat on the floor. The holder sat on the floor. We remained there for some time. We did not discuss what had happened. We discussed it the following day.

HOLDER'S APPENDED ACCOUNT

The representative's account is accurate. I would add: when the probe was in the fragment I could not watch the screen. I watched the surface of the fragment instead. The surface did not change during the probe insertion. The surface was the same regardless of what was inside it. The probe was in something and the something did not register the probe.

I do not know what to do with this.

DURATION:1 minute, 37 seconds
INSTRUMENTAL RECORD:PARTIAL (depth probe; temperature monitoring)
TRIGGER:NEGATIVE — spontaneous (occurred prior toscheduled frequency test)
WITNESSES:2 (Lapidary representative + holder)
PROBE RECOVERY:FULL (instrument undamaged; readings resumed)
STATUS:FILED

FIELD-REPORT-0041 / OB-05 / Lapidary of the Interior