The Hanson Conundrum As the world shudders under the impact of Senator Chandler's historic speech, the unspeakable horror finally arrives... While politicians jockey for position and scheme to exploit the Hanson Revelations for personal gain, a seemingly random series of terrible disasters occur. But are they random? Only those at the very highest levels of government know the answers. Legendary Chief Engineer of the Lockheed-Martin Skunk Works, Dr. Donna Hanson, Ben Hanson's brilliant daughter, and Physicist Tim Alexander, are appointed to head the troubled Cocheta Research Facility. Within days, they discover that the passive alien presence on earth is changing... and how little time a distracted planet may have left.