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1947: Humans were visited by extra-terrestrial beings of an unknown origin. Worldwide governments covered it up. 1992: Search for Extra-Terrestrial Life (SETL) received a message from deep space. This was never disclosed publicly. 2015: The unknown alien lifeforms were heading back toward Earth and would enter our atmosphere on June 21. Three months prior to the date, world leaders decided to go public. Society reacted and ultimately changed forever as a result of the truly historic revelations.

In the evolution of science and technology, laws governing exceptional creativity and innovation have yet to be discovered. The historian Thomas Kuhn, in his influential study The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, noted that the final stage in a scientific breakthrough such as Albert Einstein's theory of relativity - that is, the most crucial stage - was "inscrutable". The same is still true half a century later.

Who are the special agents? In our understanding - these are people with amazing abilities. They have overturned the will power, good physical shape and unique abilities. People are open books for them, they are easy to recognize a lie and the truth, know how to find out information and how to get others to perform tasks assigned by them. They manage to be his in any company and at the same time can easily become invisible. They are able to achieve their goals and never turn away from the intended path.