by Nick Cook
When that point of light reached a position parallel to us, it started noiselessly accelerating until it disappeared over the horizon in around twenty seconds…and that’s seriously fast for any aircraft.
We all looked at each other and then someone said, ‘Did we just see a UFO?’ There was much nervous laughter.
To this day, I have no idea what we witnessed that night. Maybe it was an experimental secret craft or maybe something stranger. Whatever it was in the sky that night, it was witnessed by a group of experienced astronomers who are used to seeing the usual candidates for UFOs – the planet Venus, fireballs, even lenticular clouds, and so on. What we’d seen was none of those things. Queue spooky music.
Whilst I was writing The Signal, the Pentagon’s secret UFO monitoring programme was revealed, the footage of which is compelling and worth watching, and you may have spotted I included a reference to it in this story. You can find the video interview of Luis Elizondo, former Pentagon military intelligence officer, here: YouTube interview.
Now I will be switching my focus back to my Fractured Light trilogy – the books that follow on from The Signal and deal with what happens next with Sentinel. I’ve no plans at the moment to write about Lauren’s search for the truth, but if you’d like to read books about this, then please leave a review for this book on Amazon. If I see enough interest, I’ll write those new stories. It’s that simple! Meanwhile, I hope you check out Fractured Light when it’s released shortly. But remember, don’t forget to watch the shadows, because the darkness is coming to Earth in September 2018.
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About the Author
Somewhere back in the mists of time, Nick was born in the great sprawling metropolis of London. He grew up in a family where art was always a huge influence. Tapping into this, Nick finished college with a fine arts degree tucked into his back pocket. Faced with the prospect of actually trying to make a living from his talents, he plunged into the emerging video game industry in the 1980s. It was the start of a long career and he produced graphics for many of the top-selling games on the early home computers, including Aliens and Enduro Racer. Those pioneering games may look crude now, but back then they were considered to be cutting edge. As the industry exploded into the one we know today Nick’s career went supernova. He worked on titles such as X-Com, and set up two studios, which produced, among other games, Warzone 2100 and the Conflict: Desert Storm series. He has around forty published titles to his name.
As great as the video game industry is a little voice kept nagging inside Nick’s head, and at the end of 2006 he was ready to pursue his other passion as a full-time career: writing. Many years later, he completed his first trilogy, Cloud Riders. And the rest, as they say, is history.
Nick has many interests, from space exploration and astronomy to travelling the world. He has even flown solo in a light aircraft, an experience he used as research for Cloud Riders. He’s always loved to cook, but then you’d expect it with his surname. In many ways his writing reflects his own curiosity about the world around him. He loves to let his imagination run riot to pose the question: What if?
