Zeta Force: The 1999 Vanishing of a Real-Life “Power Rangers” Team

They wore color-coded uniforms, black visors, and moved like a rumor. In 1997, a hush-hush program called Zeta Force allegedly trained five teenagers as a rapid-response unit for unexplained phenomena—odd lights, electromagnetic spikes, strange-creature calls, even missing-person scenes. They rode in a black armored van, the Z-Mobile, and used comms some witnesses described as “almost psychic.”

In June 1999, near the abandoned town of Red Hollow, their signal went dark for 72 hours. When the Z-Mobile was found, it was empty. No signs of a struggle—just a single scorched mark in the dirt shaped like an inverted lightning bolt. The five were  ...