9798890913883_ebook by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
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ISBN: 0000000000000
Published: 2024-02-26T11:29:04+00:00

Chapter 17

John Westmeyer took a long swig from his coffee-stained mug, the one his wife had given him ten years ago as a joke. The giant cup held darn near half a pot of coffee and took two boys and a small elephant to lift to his lips. He smiled inwardly, remembering how she would forever nag him about the ponderous amounts of black java he’d consume each day. But that was in the past. Diana had died in a car accident two years prior, and with no children, John had thrown himself into his work at NORAD’s tracking station, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado.

Bespectacled, with prematurely graying hair, he took another sip of strong brew and adjusted his tactical radar screen to a higher resolution. “Holy shit!” The ten-year-old mug went crashing to the floor, splashing hot liquid and scattering broken glass. John came out of his seat like a shot, dumping the chair over to slosh in the coffee. “Christ, Jonesy, come look at this… it can’t be for real.”

“Whatcha got, John?” Jonesy said as he ambled over to John’s station.

John stood staring at his radar screen, mouth hanging slack, and noticeably bulging eyes. “It’s huge. It just popped out of nowhere and set itself there.” He pointed to the screen, where a blip, many times the size of anything else presently being displayed, shone through the green haze.

“Got to be an anomaly of some sort,” Jonesy said nonchalantly.

“Trust me, pal, that isn’t any anomaly. It’s real, and it’s bouncing back a signal like I’ve never seen before. God, I don’t believe it. It’s taken up an orbit around the equator, just like some damned satellite.”

“Well, if it’s not an electronic abnormality, what would you suggest? Maybe an alien spaceship just dumped itself on our doorstep.” Jonesy laughed at the thought. “You’re not trying to suggest something like that could be for real are you?”

“Christ, Jonesy, I have no idea what the hell it is, but whatever, it for damned sure didn’t originate from Earth. We would have tracked it long before now.” John shook his head, still heedless of the spilled coffee and broken mug. “I think we had better get on the hook and check this out with other stations.”

“Yeah,” Jonesy said, beginning to think this thing was for real. “Let’s hit the red.” He was referring to the direct hot line to Washington D.C.

Within five minutes of Dectima’s appearance on strategic radars throughout the United States, Canada, and Western Europe, the planet known as Earth realized for the first time they were not alone in the cosmos. A new era had begun, and where the new epoch would lead not a living human soul knew.

Littia looked stunning, standing in the doorway with the back lighting of the corridor sensuously silhouetting her curves through the tunic’s fine white cloth. She smiled with gentle shyness, as Dar rose from the air bed, where he’d dozed for the last hour, to take her in his arms. He pulled her into the small room and he pressed his lips to hers.

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