Blog post: Moontanman: Contact!

CONTACT!

The year 2020 had been a wild roller coaster of a year, the second nuclear war had just barely been averted, even so 6 nuclear warheads had been detonated over targets, most of them in the middle east with one detonating while it was being loaded into an airplane and one detonating in a remote corner of China after being launched by North Korea, a mistake certainly but China had not been amused.

China had invaded and took over North Korea in just three weeks, now the Chinese were negotiating a unification of the Koreas under the banner of South Korea. Many unlikely things had happened this year, after the dust had more or less settled in the Middle East even those countries had moved sharply toward a state that was at least tolerance if not all out cooperation.

Israel was the country that lost part of a city and an airbase to the accidental detonation of a nuke as it was being loaded on an aircraft, supposed to be impossible but this year was full of impossible events that didn’t seen to know they were impossible. As a couple mega cities built by oil money were being mourned and clean up was being planned something truly improbable if not outright impossible had occurred.

On December 19th as many people were trying to calm back down and live a bare two kilometers from the international space station an alien space craft seemed to simply pop into existence. No one on board the space station had actually seen it appear but an automated camera system had been looking almost directly at the spot the alien had suddenly filled up with a two kilometer long space craft that looked amazing like a famous science fiction space craft, on the video the space craft appeared but what looked like an after image had receded into the distance. Two people on the ground that had been looking at the space station has noticed this as well and in the coming months why this after image had receded into the distance was a popular point of discussion among both scientists and laymen as well.

Sadly this was one of the few things that could be discussed about the alien craft. It hung in low earth orbit for several weeks as humanity nearly went bonkers trying to communicate with the aliens. The space craft, now called Star Ship by nearly everyone could be seen with the naked eye and after seven weeks odd little metallic balls started to appear around the planet, floating through the air these metallic balls showed up nearly everyplace on the planet as days rolled on, one more oddity to be debated fruitlessly.

In the North Pacific an American Navel Task Force was on routine maneuvers when an object appeared on the radar approaching fast, in fact before planes could be scrambled or any measures taken the elongated diamond shaped craft was hovering then landing on the deck of the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford. The craft sat on the deck as people scrambled to do something, anything, but no one really had time to do much as the craft off loaded a large metallic box and then rose and speed away into the air over the empty ocean.

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