The Disclosure Protocol (Warner & Lopez Book 8) by Dean Crawford

Author:Dean Crawford [Crawford, Dean]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: action
Publisher: Fictum Ltd
Published: 2018-04-30T06:00:00+00:00

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XXVI

Kansas

Ethan could see out of the jet’s windows the lights of America coming on as darkness consumed the sprawling fields of Kansas far below. Here at eighteen thousand feet or so he could still see the sun setting on the horizon behind them, beams of light shafting through towers of evening cloud glowing pink and gold in the sunset. Below, the land sprawled in shadow, and for some reason he felt a sense of despair or foreboding overwhelm him from nowhere.

The America below them seemed strange, a place they had not been for some time that had changed it seemed beyond all recognition, and the growing shadows seemed to reach out for the jet as it descended through wisps of blue-grey cloud toward the glittering lights of a city far in the distance.

‘We’ll be on the ground in ten minutes to refuel,’ Garrett informed him as he walked back from the cockpit. ‘From there we’ll fly you to Langley, where you can debrief your commander. What will you do then?’

Ethan shook his head.

‘I don’t know,’ he admitted.

The truth was that he was deeply concerned about what had happened at Dugway. The footage of Kyle’s friend Greg being shot in cold blood was troubling him more than he might have anticipated, but there was also something else not quite right about the shooting that he couldn’t put his finger on.

Then there was Garrett’s suggestion.

‘Have you thought about it any more?’ Garrett persisted.

Ethan was struggling to get his head around what Garrett had in mind. Sure, Kyle Trent’s mission to expose the reality of the UFO phenomena was startling and ground breaking enough, but now Garrett was proposing something even more extraordinary. Ethan didn’t even know for sure if it was actually possible.

‘How the hell would we catch one of these things even if we did find it?’ he asked.

Garrett shrugged as he took a seat beside Ethan’s.

‘I’m not the expert here, but I’d bet my bottom dollar that we could recruit someone to help us, and Kyle over there must know a thing or two about UFOs, right? If we could find a way to just disable one long enough to tether it or something…’

‘Great work genius,’ Lopez murmured sleepily from a nearby seat. ‘They can cross entire galaxies, outrun fighter jets and vanish in an instant, but a rope lasso’ll hold ‘em down no probs. Maybe we should head down to Texas and send in the cowboys.’

‘I’m not saying it would be easy,’ Garrett defended himself, ‘but these things are rumoured to have crashed from time to time all over the world. If they can crash…’

‘They can be controlled,’ Ethan finished the sentence. ‘The problem is we don’t have any idea of how they’re controlled, so we can’t really figure out a way of hijacking them. About the only way we could do it would be to…’

Ethan looked at Garrett, who nodded quietly.

‘Forget it,’ Lopez cut in. ‘I know what you two are thinking and it’s not a good idea.’

‘How do you know what we’re thinking?’ Garrett asked.

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