The Martian Cylinder crosses the void between Mars and Earth, Impacting at Grovers Mill, New Jersey. But why land there? Apart from its out of the way backwater existence, what reason would Martians have for landing there?
Its Arrival likely goes unnoticed: The site is on the border of Cretaceous Silt, Sand and Clay corridor that experiences Quakes in the 2.4-3.3 magnitude. So the cylinder impact will be unrecognizable from any other naturally occuring quake in this area.
Good water supply: The Bedrock Aquifer Well Yields are >500gpm for the region meaning highest amount of water will flow up through the bedrock shattered by the cylinder's arrival, filling the crater.
Minimal Exportable Materials: Grovers Mill has Sand and Gravel Quarries so its use is purely as a labour pool employed to exploit local materials used in roads and building construction.
Gravitational Anomolies: These are at around zero plus/minus twenty milligals.
Magnetic Anomalies: there is a 600-700 gamma magnetic anomaly four miles to the south west.
Other Minerals: Copper exists to the north and north-west ranging from 10-40 miles distant. Further north, heavy magnetite availability and some graphite deposits.
All up there is some advantage to landing at Grovers Mill. The Impact passed off as a common earthquake and the landing site can be desguised as a lake, they can use the Magnetite and Copper to produce an alloy shell that will result in a mobile weapon held together by magnetic fields. The spaces between the parts lubricated by a graphite grease for near silent movement.
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