THE AGENCY

Project Twilight is the code name used for a special division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation--the Special Affairs Division, or SAD. SAD is assigned cases that are deemed unsolvable by the agency, often dubbed "X-Files." These cases consistently contain some sort of unexplained phenomena.

Headquarters & Jurisdiction

The offices of the SAD are located in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. This places agents relatively close to the Academy in Quantico, Virginia and DC headquarters. SAD is far enough away, however, that it maintains a low profile.

Despite its North Carolina location, the SAD has nationwide jurisdiction. Agents use Elizabeth City as a home base but are sent across the country to investigate unsolved cases. They may spend weeks or even months in other regions.

SAD Ranks

Below are the ranks possible in the SAD, from lowest to highest.

• Special Agent
• Supervisory Special Agent
• ASAC/Special Agent in Charge
• Division Chief - For all intents and purposes, this is the figure in charge of the SAD. All ranks above this point are headquartered in DC and are not involved in daily activities.
• Assistant Director

The SAD are also responsible to the director and deputy director of the FBI.

History

The Special Affairs Division was initiated in 1946 by J. Edgar Hoover. It contained information about a series of murders that occurred in Northwest America during World War II, seven of which took place in Browning, Montana. Each of the victims were basically ripped to shreds and consumed, as if by a wild animal. However, many of the victims were found in their homes, as if they had allowed the killer to enter. In 1946, police cornered what they believed to be such an animal in a cabin in Glacier National Park. They shot it, but when they entered the cabin to retrieve the carcass, they found only the body of Richard Watkins. The murders stopped that year. Believing that the case was too bizarre to be solved adequately, Hoover labeled it unsolved and locked it away in the hope that it would eventually be forgotten. However, the murders resumed in 1954 and continued to occur every few years.

In 1952, an file regarding something that killed cattle and terrorized the human inhabitants of Point Pleasant, West Virginia was added to the cases. After witnesses described the culprits as primitive-looking men with red piercing eyes, they became known as the moth men.

In the same year, Dorothy Bahnsen, a clerk working at the FBI Headquarters, was responsible for the files. She had originally filed the cases under U for "unsolved", but had moved them to a more spacious X cabinet when she ran out of room. There, they began to be unofficially known as "X-files". The director's office still decided which cases were filed under X, but also discouraged people from looking at the ones that had been labeled unsolved. Special agent Arthur Dales was one of the first agents to try and tackle the cases. He had some success, but the FBI and their superiors wanted several cases to remain unsolved and Agent Dales eventually retired in obscurity.

Project Twilight was reopened in the 1990s with a handful of field agents operating out of an office in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Those agents worked under the FBI's radar for years until their mysterious disappearance in 2010, a disappearance that FBI heads quickly hushed up. very few who work for the Bureau know that there was a disappearance and those who do are not speaking about it.