Chapter One
The Discovery
Scott Joseph Dunham is a trucker based in Las Vegas. He puts in long hours hauling freight, and in the early-morning hours of December 14, 2005, he was driving his truck west on State Route 160 – a mostly desolate stretch of highway that serves as the main artery between Pahrump and Las Vegas.
Dunham was nearing Mountain Springs – roughly midway between Las Vegas and Pahrump – shortly before four a.m. and he was tired, but he decided to keep his truck plodding along as he descended a hill a few miles short of the Sandy Valley Road on 160. Then, he noticed two vehicles quickly approaching from behind.
“A high rate of speed, and I was already doing sixty-five miles per hour,” Dunham said.
The vehicles appeared to him to be a truck and a small compact car. They flew by his truck like he was standing still.