The Cloverfield Casebook
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
CASE DESIGNATE “CLOVERFIELD” DoD (7) 31-16-12
EVIDENCE FILE
April 16th, 2008 | 3:48 A.M.
The night I found the tape was the night I saw New York City the first time. Sure, it was a ghost town version of New York City, but a lot of the buildings were still there. The A-bomb doesn’t destroy everything.
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Everything looks a little surreal from inside a HAZMAT suit. I watched as much of the video as I could, barely hearing anything, just gathering enough to learn that someone had a party the night Colossus came.
Everybody calls it Colossus now.
I sneaked another look as soon as I could, but I only saw bits and pieces. Something rang a bell - a shirt, or rather the logo on a shirt. Slusho. I wouldn’t normally pay attention to this kind of thing, but my girlfriend, a regular budget gourmet, had been hearing all kinds of praise for some “deep sea nectar.” She told me they had to drill into the seabed to get it. The company sold nectar in its raw form, but they also made a drink with it: Slusho.
Back home, I found all this to be true. I’m no conspiracy theorist, of course. Naturally the government wanted to analyze the information for itself before it exposed the information to anyone who might panic.
But I started to wonder if they were trying to hide something - something big. Something we all deserved to know.
This kid with the shirt, he was going to Japan. I looked up his name on MySpace and sure enough, there he was - it didn’t take long to find his friends from the party and figure out that another one of them had gone to work for the Slusho people before. His girlfriend built a website for the two of them, and the password wasn’t hard to figure out.
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She really missed him, and sent him videos to let him know. It was sweet. I wasn’t really expecting to learn much from this, I’ll admit that - until he sent her a package, and she opened it.
He said he was being held captive by Slusho, and there was a tiny foil packet of the nectar. He told her not to eat it. She was stupid, so she did. Then she started acting really weird.
And me, I started thinking. They drilled into the seabed for this stuff? Colossus seemed to come from the direction of the water. He even knocked the head off Lady Liberty, and something tells me it wasn’t on purpose. He was angry and confused because he’d been disturbed.
I had to see the rest of that video.
It took me a while to get to it, but I did. They’d made copies by then, a lot of copies, and I figured they wouldn’t miss one. I took it back home and I watched it from beginning to end. I took stills. I analyzed everything.
There were no answers.
So now I wonder, am I the only one who’s pieced all this together? This mystery, this Cloverfield, is the government doing anything to stop it from happening again?
How many
(DOCUMENT WAS OPEN ON THE VICTIM’S COMPUTER AT TIME OF DEATH. - S.K.)
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I am sending this memo because this journal entry, in particular, is of some concern to the department. I respectfully request that all active agents participate in this investigation. Report all findings directly to me, as per Rule 458.
Before researching, agents should undergo some basic training on the facts of the Cloverfield case. Following this, they may wish to begin their research at the following sources.
Cloverfield Clues
Cloverfield News
Again, please report all findings directly to me, by following the “Comment” link below.
- Lt. Brunswick
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Ahhh, so this explains it. You didn’t actually see the movie, you fell asleep at the theater and had a dream where you were in that world!
The titles of my blog posts are the truths that hold reality together. Perhaps you think that Heath Ledger isn’t actually dead or that the Aqua Teen Hunger Force season premiere was actually enjoyable!
I think not :-p
As a matter of fact, I…
Actually, no, I have no idea what you’re talking about.
It wasn’t an A-bomb. The electromagnetic pulse from a nuclear weapon would have fried the electronic systems of the camera, including the tape.
i found the original extended trailor version just today, http://opentopix.com/topic/movies/the-official-cloverfield-movie-trailor
Reminds me, not just in shooting style but also apparently in realism striking, of the Blair Witch Project and how they even had the missing posters up of the kids in as part of the dig.
Interesting.
Your assertion about the A-Bomb is incorrect. Had it been an A-Bomb, the ensuing EMP would have knocked out the camera.
Just a FYI about the EMP blast from the A-Bomb. That’s a big croc. The EMP does not work from the Bomb unless an explosion is made in high alltitude. That’s why all those cameras work on all the nuclear test footage you see today. Look at the trinity project. Look at the 40 nukes that went off in 2 months. All Camera footage captured. The one test it was found in was in the highest nuclear test explosion done. It was when they were testing what nukes do in high-alltitudes/space. Research EMP’s if you doubt me. Plus they didn’t Nuke the city. They carpet bombed it at the end. A Nuke wouldn’t be 20 explosions going off at the end. Overall it’s a good piece. Just need to correct a few things.
Zach, thanks for the conformation about the tape surviving. That was my belief as well.
Regarding the lack of an A-bomb in the tape footage, if you look at the date stamp you’ll find this was written some months afterwards. The decision to use nuclear weapons was made after it was discovered that the monster was still alive, on par with the very quiet recording that can be heard on the tape.
EMPs destroy electronics. Back in the 50s and 60s there were no circuit boards, all computers were the size of houses…the films were just that, film..a wheel spun the film, exposing it and creating images….
It very well could have been a nuke and an EMP…EMPs destroy electronics…the camera itself would have died, the memory card that the recordings were made on COULD have survived, as they are non-volatile memory.
Yeah they carpet bomb the monster…but when the camera drops under the bridge in the park, THAT couldve been a nuke…one very huge explosion, followed by another…it is likely they dropped multiple nukes in an attempt to destroy the monster…
youve got the general facts of the movie completely wrong
its rob’s brother jason wearing the slusho shirt.
why would there be a website for rob’s girlfriend to send him videos if he hasnt left for japan yet? thats a friend of lily’s, jamie, posting for her boyfriend, teddy. teddy works for one of the overseason companies and was captured.
and it was jamie who was passed out cold on robs couch at the party.
Ryan -
It’s true that Jason was wearing the shirt, not Rob. We believe that the writer of this journal confused the two, since they look somewhat alike.
As for the Jamie situation, it seems to me that the writer was completely aware that it was Teddy who had gone to Japan, and to whom the videos were directed. I think you may have mis-read that part. He says that one of Rob’s friends had gone to Japan and that his (the friend’s) girlfriend built a website for the two of them. Since the writer clearly watched these videos, I think he was fully aware of the facts.
A nuclear blast does not necessarily produce an EMP
They nuked Clovey. It was impervious to conventional weapons, so the nuclear option would have been the next logical step. The biggest clue from the movie that a nuclear weapon was about to be used: The Marines were bugging out of the city and they never would have run and left the creature to rampage to God knows where. If you listen to the transmission heard in the crashed copter it mentions “Target still active… initiating Hammer Down.” Then it continues “sirens will sound two minutes out - if you hear those sirens your in the blast zone”. And finally “this is delta charlie returning to base - god help us.” That makes me think something very powerful is on it’s way. Just speculation but a tactical nuke of 5 Kts would be the perfect size to hopefully kill Clovey and not devastate anything beyond Manhattan Island. It would make Central Park into the “area formerly known as Central Park”. I think they used conventional weapons(bombs/artillery) to herd Clovey into CP in order to nuke him. That would explain the other explosions. As far as the camera’s survivability Zach is dead-on about EMP too. It takes a large weapon (>1MT) exploded in space to produce significant EMP. The EMP’s energy is diffuse also and acts on very large things like electrical power grids and not small electronic devices. Think large solar flare like effect. A smallish tactical nuke exploded near the ground produces nothing significant in terms of EMP. Ionizing radiation would be the biggest problem for the camera’s electronics/digital media but it could survive that if it was shielded somehow - like underneath several feet of concrete from the collapsed bridge.
Anyone else from the area confused as to why the Spring Street 6 station looked nothing like the Spring Street station? I imagine it was filmed in the ACE station, but when they identified it as being on the 6, it weirded me out. Of course, the Spring Street 6 is a fairly reasonable stop to be around if they’re headed uptown from the Brooklyn Bridge, but…why not film there? And if they’re gonna film in the ACE stop, why not identify it as such?
I live on Broome, so I ususally take the 6 from Spring Street but have very little familiarity with the Spring St. ACE.
What is the bloody password to the jamieandteddy website?
Hmm an interesting point but I’m not sure if I agree with you.
Jared Lorz
This might seem like a stupid question, but here goes: Wouldn’t an A-bomb have melted the camera?
How do you now it wasn’t a metaphore about the A-bomb. They were probally just talking aboue Clovers destruction. Another thing. Although off topic, The movie showed the unrediness of the US army. Assault rifles against something impervious to high explosive bombs?