Just a sheep

The ancestors of these sheep were found living in the the area immediately adjacent to one of the programme's facilities.  As there were no known survivors – or indeed recognisable human remains – here after the accident which resulted in the final, avowed, closure of the programme, it was long assumed that the fields had simply been rented to a local farmer.  It was curious that no-one came forward to claim the animals, but in the chaos following the accident this went unnoticed: dealing with leaks and possible stability issues in the remaining special fuels had everyone's full attention.

That this may have been a mistake became only too clear after the third local child disappeared.  The animals are generally docile in the presence of adults, who they recognise as being too large to attack.  With small children, especially when unaccompanied, this is, at least sometimes,  not the case.  No rabbits live in their fields, but some rather cruel experiments were conducted with introduced animals, the footage from which makes disturbing viewing.  The process is almost too quick to see (this is a mercy for the prey) but a high-speed camera was used.  I will not describe here what happens after the prey's skin is removed.

DNA samples have been taken and the results are, I believe, extremely curious.  Certainly the animals do have sheep DNA, but equally certainly they do not only have sheep DNA.