Alien Invasion: and the origins of mankind
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over the forest and took off in a massive flash of bright white light. I know it sounds crazy, but it might’ve been an alien”
Bobby looked over to the TV. “Its just your imagination. You’ve been spooked by the stories going around town from Warren. You can’t let that loser get to you”
“No way, this wasn’t my imagination. I saw something out there. Call up the other guys; get them together in the backyard. I’m calling an emergency meeting. We need to look into this”
“What?” Bobby sat up “Get the gang together, for this? Are you kidding? The sun has gone down. It’s way to late for a meeting. Our parents won’t let us out this late”
“Then well will have to sneak out” Timmy whispered.
Bobby shook his head in disbelief “This better be good. I’ll call the other two and meet you in the backyard. I just hope we don’t get caught,” he whispered back.
Timmy hung up the phone and glanced back out his window. He took off down the stairs from his bedroom and outside making sure his parents didn’t see him. He made his way over the fence into Bobby’s backyard and checked the sky. Seeing if the mysterious object came back. He paced back and forth by the swings waiting for the others, always looking in the direction of the forest.
One by one the others make their way to Bobby’s backyard.
Kyle made his way over and stood by the oak tree. Sam was the last to arrive and walked over to Bobby who was bored who was keeping himself entertained by reading a comic book.
Sam sat down on the swing, to small for him now. “Okay, I got a call from Bobby about an emergency meeting. I don’t mind emergency meetings in the daytime, but now it’s late. What’s happening now?”
Bobby didn’t even look up from his comic book “Timmy saw a bright light moving in his backyard. He thinks it’s an alien”
Kyle shook his head. “What? An alien? We called an emergency meeting for this? There’s no such thing. You think it’s alien because of the stories from Warren and his gang talking about lights in the sky”
Bobby spoke without looking up “That what I told him,” He flipped through the pages of a comic book.
Sam looked over to Timmy “Kyle’s right. Aliens aren’t real. You should see how many silly stories there are in the Internet. I was reading some of them, its just crazy people who need medication. There’s nothing out there”
Timmy couldn’t stand still as talked a mile a minute “If you guys had seen what I’d seen, you wouldn’t be saying that. At first I walked by my window and thought I saw an adult moving around in the darkness, but it moved away into the shadows. I thought it was nothing more then a trick of my mind, but a while later I thought I saw something that looked like a little child, and I was thinking how could it be a child out in the forest? Then I saw a massive bright light lifted into the sky and fly away deep into the forest”
Kyle looked over to Sam “What did he say? None of that made sense. He’s talking way to fast”
Timmy kept rambling on, not even looking at the other boys “It’s not to far from here. It clearly was an object and not my imagination. It gave off a massive bright light that filled my room, but it didn’t make any noise”
“No way could it have been a alien,” Bobby said. “Just not possible”
Kyle looked to Timmy “I know what it was. It was nothing more then a father and son in the woods shooting off fireworks. That would explain the bright lights”
Bobby nodded “That sounds right to me. It would explain the two dark figures and the bright lights”
Timmy disagreed “Oh no this wasn’t fireworks or a family. I know fireworks. It was a mysterious bright flying object. It looked oval in shape, gray in color. Big enough for someone to be inside of”
Bobby looked over to Timmy “Maybe it something which belongs to the military. There are in town this weekend dusting the forest”
“That’s right” Kyle said, “Its the military dusting the forest. Problem solved. Probably trying out a helicopter a night before the dusting”
“A new helicopter” Bobby said “That’s sounds cool. Wish I’d seen it”
Timmy looked at the other three guys “I can’t imagine it was a helicopter. This had no wings or blades. It was silent the whole time. It flew way to fast. There’s only one way to answer this mystery. We need to go into the forest and check it out ourselves right now, before it gets away.”
The three boys other looked at each other in surprise then back to Timmy.
“What did that crazy boy just say?” Kyle asked while giving his head a shake.
Sam was just as amazed as Kyle was.
Bobby looked to Timmy “You want us to go into the dark forest tonight, to look for a UFO? This is insane” He looked over to Sam “Talk some sense into Timmy, I think he’s gone mad” He looked back to Timmy “You are aware its dark out there and its late? Our parents will ring our necks for sneaking out now”
“I telling you I saw something. This could be really big. Let’s just check it out and see what it is. It might be an alien,” Timmy said quickly.
“Into the forest, at night?” Kyle said “Your crazy. That’s one good way to end up injured. What if we fall off dead man’s cliff? Hard enough to see the cliff in the daylight, but at night?”
Sam spoke up “First off, why would an alien come to Springbrook Gardens? And if it is aliens, then let the army look into it”
Timmy looked at the guys “If this is what I think it is. We will be on the front cover of every newspaper in the world. This could lead to worldwide fame. The very thing we’ve always wanted. Everyone in town will know our names. We could not only have one or two girls from class talking to us, but all the girls in town talking to us by Monday”
The kids looked at each for a moment.
“Lets go,” They all said at once.
The kids snuck out of the backyard making sure there parents didn’t see them out the window and within a few minutes made they’re way up the sidewalk headed north towards Main Street. They knew the best way to enter the forest at night was walking down Forest Road. They didn’t want to enter the forest through Bobby’s backyard or “whole in the tree”. Even in the daytime it was difficult to make there way through the dense brush and trees. Anyone one of them could’ve been hurt tripping over a tree root.
At the intersection they turned left onto Main Street towards Forest Road. The whole time they chatted away about how famous they were going to become within the next few hours. Bright streetlights above cast their shadows in a light yellow hue on the sidewalk. The stores around them where all closed and the lights turned off inside. Just the signs above with the store’s names were lit up in different colors.
The streets where all empty now, the military jeeps gone and everyone else at home. The banners and pictures still remained. The street festival was done for the night and a quiet stillness had set in.
The kids walked along chatting away about how they would dress and acted during the press conference with a million reporters from all over the world calling out questions. Each one practiced what they would say with the live news cameras rolling and the microphones in front.
They reached the end of town and started walking down Forest Road. As soon as they entered the forest they stopped chatting and started looking deep into the forest for anything suspicious, every little thing they thought moved was pointed to. Each one wanting to go down in history as the first one to spot the alien or aircraft. Like being the first man to walk on the moon, each one wanting to be first. With each passing step the number of trees surrounding them grew in numbers, closing in.
Bobby walked along holding a comic book in his hand. He loved carrying one with him wherever he went. A few minutes into searching he opened it up and looked at an image of a massive flying saucer shooting through the night sky above city skyscrapers. He closed the comic book and glanced up through the tree branches at the countless stars. “You think there could be life on other planets living in cities like we do?” h
e whispered in the darkness.
Sam answered while looking into the bushes and passed the trees, “I don’t know. It’s hard to say. Astronomers haven’t found a single planet with life so far, not even a single sign of life much less an actual walking, talking alien. Hard to imagine aliens living and working in skyscrapers looking through telescopes at us” The density of the trees now blocked out sound and light from the town behind them. They were surrounded by the silence and the darkness.
Kyle agreed while walking and searching. “I watched a program the other day about these massive satellites out in the desert, big huge suckers, twenty seven of them in row upon rows pointed up at the stars listening for any messages from intelligent life from other planets, so far we heard nothing. The closest thing heard from outer space was in 1977 called the Wow signal. However, it was written off as a signal picked up from our own satellites. Scientists at first thought aliens were sending them a signal letting them know they were out there, but the signal lasted for only seventy two seconds, talk about weird”
“If it was a signal from aliens why did they only send it once?” Timmy asked. “Shouldn’t they rebroadcast it over and over?”
“True” Kyle said “But we humans have sent signals into space one time only as well. If aliens picked up our signal they would’ve heard it once. They might be up there asking the same thing.”
“It crazy to think”