4th November 2020
It's been a strange year.
Like everyone else, we've had to change the way we do things.
The community hall has been closed for much of the year, so our meetings have moved online. Some people haven't been able to join regularly.
For a while I thought the group might just fade away.
Then something happened.
A man contacted me claiming he'd worked for a company called Urbesc ‘Construction’ - and he had seen documents referencing Site 42. He said Urbesc used different names to stay hidden. Some of the names he used matched the names of employers of our missing family members.
I can't share his name, and I have absolutely no way of confirming who he is.
We spoke over the telephone.
He sounded older. Quite nervous.
He said the document indicated the facility had several restricted areas and that staff needed different levels of authorisation to move between them.
I asked what Urbesc was, what they did, why the were using other names to hide behind.
He said he wasn't prepared to discuss it.
I asked whether he recognised any of the missing people.
There was a long pause.
Then he asked how we'd obtained the photograph.
I hadn't mentioned a photograph.
I asked him what he meant.
He said, "You need to be careful about the people you're talking to."
I asked whether he was threatening me.
He said no.
Then he said something I haven't been able to stop thinking about.
"Sometimes the truth should stay hidden."
Before I could ask what that meant, he ended the call.
We've tried contacting him again.
Nothing.
I know how this sounds.
It could be somebody having a laugh at our expense. But Urbesc could also be the link we have been missing.
But how did he know about the photograph?
We've never published it.
I'm going to speak to Sarah tomorrow.
I don't think I'll sleep much tonight.
