This is a work of fiction — cosmic-horror entertainment and nothing more. Every claim, document, “leak,” equation, person, and event here is invented. Real organizations — NASA, the Walt Disney Company, SpaceX, HAARP, and others — appear only as fictionalized characters in an imagined alternate reality, in the tradition of conspiracy-thriller and found-document horror.

In the world we actually live in: the sky is open, space is real, the Moon landings happened, and the auroras and satellite deorbits this story borrows have ordinary, well-understood causes. Read it for the dread, not the doctrine — then go outside and look up anyway. It’s worth it, and it’s true.