Cold Skies: A Psychological Thriller by Zoe Drake

Author:Zoe Drake [Drake , Zoe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Excalibur Books
Published: 2021-04-20T22:00:00+00:00

At 3 am Gareth found out that Littlewood had another passion beside UFOs: cricket.

They went back into the barn to get the bat, ball and stumps from the sports bag, and moved the cameras and tripods back out of harm’s way. They put the crease in the area of the Skywatch with the stumps in front of the barn door. Andy went in as backstop; Gareth and Littlewood tossed to see who would bat first, and Gareth won. A few minutes later, after some ruthless bowling from Littlewood, Gareth realized that he’d probably come off worse from the deal. Bennings and the students went in to field, with the students shouting the rules to Bennings as the game went along.

Someone had just thrown the ball back to Littlewood when Andy stepped closer and grasped Gareth’s arm, his bangles rattling in the cold air. “Just a minute,” he said. “What’s that?”

“Where?”

Andy pointed upwards, and Gareth looked in the direction of his hand.

“It’s a star,” he said.

Then he realized that the ‘star’ was moving.

He narrowed his eyes and blinked several times, trying to stop the cold air from getting to his tear ducts. He heard sounds of alarm and concern from the other Skywatchers around him, the game of cricket instantly forgotten. He felt a cold tide of disbelief flowing through his body as he realized that they’d seen it too.

He realized the white pinpoint of light was part of a larger object. Not a cloud, something rectangular, maybe the size of a rugby pitch. There were other lights; dim red glows along the bottom of the shape.

He heard Andy’s voice next to him. “Gareth, the camera!”

“Oh yeah. Right.” Andy was already snapping away.

He pressed his head to the rangefinder and adjusted the focus with stiff fingers. Yes… whatever he was looking at, the camera registered it too! He brought it into further clarity and pressed the shutter release.

Whatever he had in the lens was now as big as a two-story house, and it blotted out the stars as it moved. The lights along the side of the shape kept changing; they were a series of lines, or bars, a band of various colors that blended into each other. It was totally silent; the voices of the Skywatchers grew in volume and excitement, but there was no sound from the sky, no noise of engines.

I’ve got to keep it in focus, Gareth thought. If I take the camera off it, the thing will disappear.

The second the thought had crossed his mind, the shape jumped out of the range of the lens. Gareth lifted his head. The object was flashing across the sky, toward the horizon, almost faster than his eyes could track it, moving at impossible speed.

Then it was gone.

The patch of land outside the barn erupted into shouts and cheers.

“That was about five hundred feet up–”

“No, one thousand.”

“About seventy five feet long, forty feet wide–”

It was a plane, Gareth told himself. It had to be an airplane.

But he knew that a

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