The anomaly wasn’t a vent. It was a decaying orbital battery pack from a 2018 Starlink clone, and it was going to re-enter exactly over their peninsula in eleven days.
She typed the satellite’s IP address directly into the address bar. No HTTPS. No certificate warnings suppressed—just accepted, because Firefox 115 still had a setting called security.ssl.enable_ocsp_stapling and her father had set it to false years ago. firefox 115