The Visitors

The alien spacecraft slipped into Earth orbit. It looked like a giant saucer, as too many movies had predicted. No writing or symbols appeared anywhere on the hull. It glowed mysteriously. 

The world governments learned of it quickly and would have preferred to keep it from common knowledge, but there were too many eyes in the sky. People found out and began to panic or rejoice, depending on their particular mindset. 

The governments kept their missiles trained on the craft and kept their militaries on high alert. But then nothing happened. The thing just floated there. That increased the panic. 

No one knows for sure who launched the first nuclear warhead at the UFO. Probably one of the smaller countries. But the spaceship used some kind of gravity weapon to slap the missile away. It crashed not far outside Moscow and grew an ugly radioactive toadstool. 

Russia, figuring it was China or the US taking advantage of the distraction to attack them, launched a retaliation. China and the US responded with their own retaliations. France, Britain, Israel, Pakistan, and India joined the fray. No one shot any more missiles at the UFO, only at each other. 

A week after it arrived, the massive alien craft slipped out of orbit. There were no eyes in the sky to notice. And not many left on the ground either.

∼ Charles Gramlich

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