This is an interesting and workable premise, but the author had a poor grasp on how to explain the anomaly to the reader. The sentence structure is dense at times, and the article is peppered with run-on sentences.

Worse still is that the order of events makes the anomaly nigh-incoherent until the reader has passed through a decent chunk of the article. The ideal to strive for when directly explaining an anomaly is that the reader has a constant and clear mental image of how the anomaly works up to the chronological point the article has reached. There should not be "mental gaps" that get filled later on, at least not without purpose. RPC-210 leaves them all the time. See the first description paragraph, for instance. The first sentence is broad enough to raise a ton of questions, and the next two sentences address minuscule and inconsequential parts of it. Also, I didn't know there were 20 years in a month. (I know it's a time-shifting anomaly, but that should've been said already!)

Now that I'm past the presentation, let's get into the narrative meat. The idea itself is interesting and could hold an article well. A lot of incidental details just lack forethought, though. The biggest issue is that the concept and delivery are incompatible. Things are described in precise and certain detail when the anomaly itself is rare and elusive. How do they know it's always twenty years if only one guy has lived that long? Why would they describe the conclusion of the event so specifically if only one person has survived to experience it?

Here's another oversight:

Of the ████ bodies found, four have been discovered with letters of an unknown language present on the torso and back. A recent translation of the carvings has found all four of them to be the same message

How exactly do you translate an "unknown language"? Also, why is RPC-210 (which is trying to end civilization) communicating to humans with language (a product of civilization)? On that note, how does it think that taking one person every few months and making them kill a relative is going to overthrow civilization? Making a few people into crazy murderers every year isn't really going to help its cause.

Perhaps the biggest conceptual flaw with this article is that instead of explaining the premise naturally, the author just… says it.

It is unknown of what motivates the RPC-210-2 instances to do this. It is speculated that they are under the control of RPC-210 in an attempt to lower the mental stability of RPC-210-1.

Considering the carvings, it seems to want to revert humanity back to our primitive state putting us through a gauntlet of mutated fauna until it feels we're ready to prove what we've learnt by killing one of our own, specifically a relative. More research is needed to confirm this theory.

The phrase "show, don't tell" would be applicable here. This article would be much better if these revelations came naturally.

That being said, I think this premise was interesting (kind of like an inverse RPC-265), and the concluding interview was really the article's saving grace. I want this entire package to be good, but it's just not there yet. 2/5