CHAPTER 5
Iargan Spacecraft
"We will now keep the promise we
made at the beginning of this meeting and show you our
spacecraft."
The screen showed a new picture in space with thousands of stars
in the endless black depths of the cosmos. In the middle hung
four shining round discs, spaced at regular intervals and
exactly in line. A moment later these objects turned slowly and
I was able to see a side view.
I felt a wild triumph welling up
inside me.
"Flying saucers-real, live flying saucers!"
In the side view
they had the streamlined profile of a perfect discus with
knife-sharp edges.
They were marked from above and below with
many concentric rings, but windows or any other sign that living
beings were on board were nowhere to be seen. Only on the outer
right ship was a small projecting cylindrical ridge to be seen,
which blindingly reflected the sunlight.
They were connected to
each other by a cable and apart from this, I could see no other
details.
"How large are those things?"
"You can judge that for yourself. The navigation dome is raised
in the last craft and you have walked over it."
"You don't mean that small shining ridge?"
"Certainly."
I was shocked. You would build a villa on that platform!
"But. .
.now, let me see. They must be nearly one thousand feet in
diameter!"
"our compliments on your power of estimation."
I was breathless. A supertanker could turn on one of them!
"Such
a monster is surely not here underwater?"
"No, this is a landing unit, a complete spacecraft of much
smaller dimensions that can detach itself from the mother ship,
operate independently in space and land on planets."
"Why are they so large?"
"They are not so large. We would like to build them bigger, but
for safety reasons, each space command consist of five ships.
You cannot see the last one here because the film was made by
this ship during a coupling maneuver close to Iarga. The ships
are connected to each other by a hollow tube containing a lift.
We are therefore able to visit each other."
"Why do they have the discus form?"
"The discus is the final universal form of starships. The main
reason is the round form of the propulsion unit, the sun wheels.
To give you an idea of this, here is a film."
A gigantic, round, factory hall
appeared, at least twelve hundred feet in diameter and with a
self-supporting roof construction.
One of these craft was under
construction. A complicated, star-patterned rib construction in
which the contours of an enormous discus could dearly be seen.
Hundreds of Iargans in orange-colored overalls were working in
innumerable floor levels between cranes and other equipment.
Close to the outer edge of the discus
were two round pipes, each of about twenty feet in diameter and
about twelve feet apart, one above the other. Outside this
double-tube system was a much larger tube with a triangular cross
section, rounded off at the corners. This was connected to the other
two tubes by tangential, trumpet-shaped pipes.
This ring system was the sun wheel.
"When I don't understand how a set
of tubes can power a spaceship, you can hardly expect me to
understand why they must be round."
"The mass-kinetic propulsion principle is understandable to you.
In both the round tubes, matter is spun round at relative speed.
The direction in each tube is opposite, one left and one right."
"Oh, I see-a sort of cyclotron?"
"Let us say a sort of synchrotron. The outlet principle of a
rocket is known to you. Hot gases, or material, is forced out at
the highest possible speed. A universal spaceship does in fact
do the same thing. Matter is forced out at the speed of light,
but not into space; it comes into an antimass field, where it
simply disappears and falls back as immaterial energy in the
cosmic carrier field. Look at this ring system from above and
strike a line square at the flight direction through the center
point. You then have two diametrically opposite points.
At these
points and where the material stream is in a backward direction,
you set a cosmic laser working, which continually lets the
fastest moving particles escape. You then have the same effect
as a rocket which blasts material out at the speed of light
through two nozzles. Through the circle form, the two lasers can
be moved, so that the propulsive power can be used in any
direction from the horizontal plane."
"I understand it so far, but you must need an awful lot of fuel
in order to continually allow material to escape."
"That is the secret of the universal spaceship. No matter is
lost in the propulsion process. The matter blasted backwards
vanishes but stays as an overdose of immaterial energy of the
cosmic carrier field in a complicated power field within the
spaceship. Because of this, we can create new matter within a
fraction of a second, which is again introduced and accelerated.
The process repeats itself as an endless cycle.
Through the
disappearance of the matter, the movement energy is lost, which
is to say that it is changed into a reaction-free force, but the
mass energy is retained."
text for craft-drawing
Sectioned view of a "space discus". The
discus form of the mother ship, which is approximately 250 m in
diameter, is a compromise between a maximum surface area for cooling
and a minimum frontal area with a maximum capacity. This is the
universal solution for space travel at cosmic velocities.
The power
source, a "sun-wheel" (two opposed cyclotrons with an outer ring for
the control of weightless energy) is unknown to US and demands the
circular platform. The danger of collision with cosmic dust at
relative speeds necessitates the smallest possible frontal area. The
two smaller modular discs are in fact landing units, the mother-ship
always remains in space.
Electro-magnetic fields, high temperatures,
and the ionization of the surrounding air, make it impossible for Us
to see these craft in clear detail. A race that can finance such
machines is by axiom peaceful, they need global Cooperation before
it is possible.
Key to the numbers on drawing:
1. Armor plating 2. Main power unit 3. Tangential connectors between cyclotrons and collector
ring 4. Main frames 5. Outer skin and cooling system 6. Pressure skin 7. Equipment area 8. Fuel tanks (water) 9. Crew area, food cultures, etc. 10. Landing unit (tanker) for wet planets 11. Water tanks in landing unit 12. Crew area in landing unit 13. Command tower (retractable) 14. Direction of constant acceleration (or deceleration)
text for painting-image of Iargan city
The dwelling units, great covered rings,
over 900 feet in diameter by nearly 300 feet high, housed about
10,000 people per unit, and included all services and facilities of
all kinds for that many individuals. They were arranged in
rectangular formations of 36 ring-complexes per "city" giving a
population density of about 6,000 per square kilometer.
The strange
vegetation has evolved to withstand the heavy gravity and the high
winds that prevail here. With only a 10% land surface available on
this planet high density living became a necessity and developed
efficiently. The strange vegetation has evolved to withstand the
heavy gravity and the high winds that prevail here. The fully
automated robot rail transport system operated with frictionless
efficiency, moving vehicles of many sizes and configurations at high
speeds.
There were individual cars for small groups, collective units like
trains for mass movement, cargo units for commerce, and even a
peculiar development something like a hotel tram. A group of people
wanting to travel together would order a unit that was fitted out as
a self-service hotel and simply go where the mood took them. The
system was marvelously efficient and could move over one million
persons per hour past any point using only the upper six-lane rail
system between the house blocks.
The rail system and equipment was
designed with a useful life expectancy of 1,000 years, a kind of
quality undreamed of on Earth.
"You've lost me. You can really create reaction-free forces in a
closed circuit! How is that possible? I always thought that the
law of action-reaction was correct."
"That law is indeed correct. And in order to overcome the law
you must overcome natural laws, or, in other words, the cosmic
carrier-field laws."
"Are you not afraid that with this information we could
construct a sun wheel?"
"No. The cardinal point, the reversal of the matter-energy
carrier-field transformations, defying the laws of nature,
demands such a high standard of advanced atomic science that you
will no longer be able to reach it. Energy surplus (overskudd)
from the carrier field, which can create matter particles, is an
extremely dangerous phenomenon.
Such unimaginable concentration
of energy can only be controlled in gravitational fields of
which even the most elementary knowledge is absent here on
Earth. Such a sun wheel radiates a force that even over long
distances can cause certain electron movements to cease and
metal constructions to disintegrate. You have no idea of the
technique that goes into building universal spacecraft."
"Why do you call it a sun wheel? What has it got to do with the
sun?"
"Suns, due to the rotation of their critical mass, are natural
spacecraft which, under the influence of the particle
bombardment of their neighbors, navigate space with free cosmic
vector powers. Through these powers they maintain their distance
from other stars and cause the turning moment and the expansion
of galaxies.
The sun wheel, therefore, is a copy of the power of
a sun. A sun wheel can exert power only in the horizontal plane
and one alone can, therefore, not navigate. It is necessary to
place a smaller wheel beside the main central wheel, on both
sides, that of the landing units, so that a torque can be
created in order to steer the ship. When this ring system is
covered by metal plating, the discus form appears naturally."
"Why do they have to be so streamlined, since space is surely
empty?"
"We wish that were true! For spaceships that travel at relative
speeds, space is not empty enough and not only streamlining but
armor plating is also necessary. You have seen our ship and can
see that armor is not a useless luxury. They have no windows;
they are heavy, armored projectiles, whose strength comes from
the discus form.
Comment: other cosmic races for example
Pleiadians
from planet Erra (Semjase..) - seems to have developed a system
with magnetic protection shields, which apparently serve the
same purpose as here described. But it seems as these beings -
Iargans -don't travel interdimensional/through jumps in hyperspace, as
the Erra describes.
And because of that, their
space-travels seems to take very long time as will be said later
in the text. In earlier times the Pleiadians/our ancestors from
the system of Lyra, also had these 'first generation space
travels', then the trips took very, very long time.
"When our radar warns us of dust or material, we make the
banking maneuver that you have just seen. This then presents the
smallest possible surface area to the danger. Nevertheless, each
particle of dust makes burn marks on the plating. For this
reason we always fly in line formation. The command consists of
five ships and the lead ship is always unmanned, because this
one runs the greatest risk. The ships are connected by a cable,
because at relative speeds radio contact is impossible.
"Another
advantage of the discus form is the great natural resistance to
thermal variations and the large cooling surface. The ships are
very hot under normal working conditions and the outer plating
acts as a cooler for control of the energy processes on board.
Lastly, the discus form is ideal for creating a strong magnetic
field that protects the occupants from dangerous radiation in
space. We hope your question is answered."
"Yes, fine, thank you - but didn't you say something about a
protective weapon which you could use if material threatened to
cross the path of the spacecraft?"
"The antimatter ray, Stef, is a defense against larger blocks
which only rarely occur in space. The use of this ray demands
not only enormous quantities of energy, but it is controlled by
strong restrictions to prevent disturbing the natural balance.
We are only justified in its use when no other methods are
possible. This weapon cannot replace the armor plating of our
ships."
"I understand. What is life like on board in weightless
conditions? It seems to me that it must not be very pleasant."
"In weightless conditions it would indeed not only not be
pleasant, it would even be impossible. An intelligent being
cannot live without gravity during the endless journey between
the stars. We have solved this problem by the continual use of
the sun wheel, which creates a constant acceleration or
deceleration exactly like the conditions on our planet. We do
not subject our people to abnormal gravity forces. The
acceleration of our ships is always constant so that we can live
on board exactly as in our homes.
"The journey begins with a long
period of acceleration until we have reached the maximum speed
at which navigation is possible. Then we alternately slow down
and speed up. The last part of the journey is a long period of
deceleration. Gravity is always normal, because of the continual
working of the great, central sun wheel. The small sun wheels
are not used for normal propulsion."
"What is 'above' and 'below' with
you on board?"
Again: other cosmic races for example,
Pleiadians from planet Erra (Semjase) - have developed a system
which creates a artificial gravitation field, where all atoms (in
people aboard) are affected of the same progressive forces as of the
ship.
text for UFO-painting
Painting of an Iargan
exploration leaving the ringed home planet on an interstellar
journey. An exploration
command frequently consists of five thousand-foot-diameter universal
spacecraft powered by "sun wheels." They fly in
line-astern formation connected by an umbilical. One of the two
two-hundred-fifty-foot detachable landing modules may be seen in the
center of each of the larger excursion vessels. Painting by Jim
Nichols.
The screen again showed the view of the
four ships in line formation joined by the cable.
"You see here
the formation of our command shortly after leaving our planet.
The acceleration was in the direction off light and the ships
flew to the left. The left ship is therefore above the right
one, where the navigation dome is out, is below."
"So you are standing upright in the area that is horizontal in
the picture. I see you then on your side."
"Exactly."
I stared into the navigation dome and suddenly I understood:
"I
see. This navigation dome is normally vertical, which explains
why all the instruments are on the floor. The metal grills are
the floor levels for using the instruments and the track in the
middle is for a lift to bring you to the different levels."
"We have no complaints about your powers of observation."
"Is the control of such a machine so complicated that all these
instruments are necessary?"
"The control of the ship does not require all these instruments.
They are for other purposes. To explain it we must begin at the
beginning.
"This landing unit is a part of the huge mother ship.
It can release itself and operate independently in space and
land on planets. In the normal situation, these landing units
are an integral part of the mother ship. You must realize that
the central wheel of a landing unit is one of the two steering
wheels of the mother ship. We will show you a landing unit in
action and then you will understand better."
The view changed.
Right in front of me
was a huge discus. I saw only the upper surface, pockmarked with
burns and melted stone masses. Then, slowly, out of this monster,
rose a tiny black pole that I recognized as the black pole
approximately five feet in diameter. Then appeared the shining rim
of the navigation dome. Immediately after, a small discus rose out
of the middle of the spaceship as though it was forcefully pushed
away.
The thing accelerated and disappeared as a speck of light in
the background of stars. It was an asymmetrical discus of much
smaller dimensions. Its upper surface matched the curve of the
mother ship perfectly, but the underside was more rounded and it had
a conical rim. Also on the underside was a further thickening in the
form of a flat dome.
The mother ship was left with a deep
bowl in the middle, in which the landing unit fitted.
"Is the landing unit's navigation
dome as big as this?"
"Yes."
"Good heavens-then the unit must be at least two hundred and
fifty feet in diameter."
"That is nearly correct."
"Inconceivable!"
"Exactly. The technical know-how that goes into the building of
a universal spacecraft is beyond the conception of Earth men.
This navigation dome is the nerve center of the spaceship.
Imagine what is involved in navigation and communication, what
is needed only in instruments, data records and calculating
machines. Each navigation dome can carry out all the control
functions of the, entire fleet, including climate control, food
production, entertainment and the study program for the
children. All in all, too much to mention, but we can assure you
that the number of instruments is kept to an absolute minimum."
"Exactly. The technical know-how that goes into the building of
a universal spacecraft is beyond the conception of Earth men.
This navigation dome is the nerve center of the spaceship.
Imagine what is involved in navigation and communication, what
is needed only in' instruments, data records and calculating
machines. Each navigation dome can carry out all the control
functions of the entire fleet, including climate control, food
production, entertainment and the study program for the
children. All in all, too much to mention, but we can assure you
that the number of instruments is kept to an absolute minimum."
"What did you say? Study programs for the children? Do you have
children on board?"
"Yes, we are not just an expedition. We live on board with our
wives and children, sometimes for twenty years or more. Space is
our home. For people seeking contemplation as the greatest
happiness, the warm intimate contact is a life experience and a
mental enrichment that we would not miss for anything. You could
compare us to your monks. We wish to live and die among the
stars."
"Yes, you must be rather like monks if you lead your lives in a
steel box."
"You have no idea of the comfort on board our ships, but we will
leave it at that."
"How long can you keep the sun wheel constantly in motion?"
"long time, even up to twenty years; then we must refuel."
"So you must make sure that you are back on your own planet
within that time?"
"No, our fuel is water. The oxygen is used for ourselves and the
hydrogen is our source of energy. Many solar systems have a wet
planet and this is usually the goal of our journey, so finding
water is no problem. Our landing units are fitted out for the
efforts to publish transportation of water. This is how they are
able to remain under water like your submarines."
"So you only take water on board?"
"That is so.
"Then what do you eat over all the years?"
"This is one of the main problems involved with the construction
of universal spaceships. The technique is only half the problem.
The other half is making a livable environment on board with a
100 percent recycling system. It is difficult to keep
intelligent beings alive under space conditions.
"We can give you no more information about our spacecraft, this
was more than enough and we have reached the end of our talk. If
you wish to ask anything special, this is your last chance."
"You surely cannot leave without giving me instructions as to
how I am to publish this conversation?"
"Do not expect us to give you instructions, you are free to do
as you will, our work is done. The knowledge has been planted,
and even if you should decide to do nothing, it has also been
planted in the collective consciousness of man, of which you
have the knowledge. Millions of the departed have listened with
you, they know as well as you do."
"I don't understand; on the one hand you impress upon me the
importance of this information to humanity at the end of time,
and on the other hand you tell me that I am free to publish or
not; I can't make head or tail of this!"
"The first law of interplanetary contacts is that the free will
of a cosmic race may never be infringed. Pure knowledge does not
infringe the freedom unless we are dealing with a race that has
not yet made its choice, as we are here.
"Let us begin with the first observation; knowledge does not
infringe freedom. This means that we are permitted to plant
knowledge, and nothing more than that. We may never exert any
kind of pressure to make you do anything with this knowledge.
This is why we tell you that the knowledge is planted in the
collective consciousness of man, sooner or later it must come to
the surface. You have no obligations at all, you are free.
"The second observation causes greater problems. Knowledge can
influence the freedom of choice of an ignorant race, as we have
already explained; and certainly when this knowledge is
presented with authority, or by one means or the other, it can
be made indisputable.
"This is why you must never try to prove our existence, and the
proof of the existence of God may only be used when all other
efforts to publish have failed."
"You can rest assured that I would hate myself if I did not
publish this knowledge. I assume that you could still give me
some advice when I am ready to publish?"
"When it is obvious that you have chosen of your own free will,
we will be prepared to give you a few hints. The first thing you
must do is to control the impact of your publication to prevent
hysteria and fanaticism. You can only accomplish this by being
mysterious about the source of your information. We know that
you have made photos of our navigation dome and you must destroy
them. The block of metal which we offered you at the beginning
of our conversation cannot be given anymore.
If, however, you do
manage to find some proof of our existence, things will get out
of hand and you will be destroyed by the hysteria of mankind.
Write your book in clear science-fiction style and bring in
certain, so that it cannot be used as irrefutable logic. You
must leave people free to believe or not, as they choose. If
anyone should ask you if it really happened, you must deny it
and say that it is pure imagination.
The people for whom the book is destined will say: 'I am not
interested whether it really happened or not; for me, it is
true. It has changed my insight and now I live consciously. I
know the meaning behind life.'
"Honesty is dangerous for you and no measure in interplanetary
contacts. Therefore, you must not publish all the information in
one shot, but step by step and measure the results. Never strive
to be believed. Your duty is only to publish this information
and nothing more. Let the books lead their own lives and avoid
publicity stunts.
They will then pass from hand to hand and
reach the people for whom they are intended. Insure that they
are published in a sufficient number of languages and use the
income from the book to this end. Make sure that it is available
at the end time when people will begin to ask for it. Never try
to convince people of the truth in the book if they are not ripe
for it, or if they are unable to understand it. Never bring
pressure to bear on your surroundings, for that will only create
panic and hysteria.
"Remain modest. Answer questions only from
people who have for the most part understood the book and
accepted it. Never say anything in conflict with the Christ
insight such as it appears in the Bible. His authority is
unassailable in the whole universe. He is the only way; the only
truth and the life.
"No one comes to the father except
through him" (means: His way of living - forgiving everything
you feel as injustice against you).
"Our conversation is over. It is late and you must reach the
harbor before dark. We are going to say our good-byes. Are you
ready to leave?"
A feeling of despair began to come over
me, mixed with a strange emotion. They were leaving; they were going
to leave me alone! There were a great many more questions to ask,
and who was going to help me when they were gone?
I rose slowly and
walked to the window so that I could see these eight space travelers
once more at dose range.
"Yes, we must say good-bye. I shall
miss you terribly. There is so much more to ask and to be
explained, but what I shall miss most is your interest and
affection for Us. The pleasant warmth that you call
unselfishness. I will never be able to explain what this contact
with you has done to me. It has in a short time made another man
of me, with a wider horizon and a deeper insight. It has made me
a man with purpose, and I have received a commission which must
be carried out.
"I will accept the challenge. Greet the people on Iarga and the
other planets for me, and thank them for their part in this
journey of yours that has made all this possible. Tell them that
this man envies them their world of perfection, where
intelligent people can really be happy. Tell them that I
understand, in spite of the questions that have not yet been
answered. And now it is my difficult task to thank you all for-"
"Stop, Stef. You do not have to thank Us. Our satisfaction in
the fact that you have accepted the challenge makes thanks
unnecessary, but there is still one big problem. You know how we
worry that you will try to prove our existence and this would
mean that we had gone too far. You can relieve us of a great
burden by promising to destroy the film and reframing from any
attempt to collect proof."
I smiled, a little regretfully.
"I have even understood and accepted
the ethics of interplanetary contacts. I assure you on my word
of honor that I will destroy the film and refrain from trying to
collect any kind of proof"
The disinterested attitude of the eight
suddenly changed. They got up and came to stand in a half circle
around the window.
For the first time, I saw some kind of
emotional
reaction on their faces.
"You have taken a great weight off
our minds. We trust your honesty and you have therefore made it
possible for US to allow you to leave unhindered with all your
knowledge. Only now do we feel justified in doing this.
Operation cosmic integration Earth is a success. A heavy burden
has been lifted from Us.
"We rely on you to understand that it is our duty to convince
ourselves that you have destroyed the film, and we ask you to do
so before you step on board your ship, and dearly within sight
of the black pole. Thereafter, we will let your ship loose, and
leave.
"Farewell, Stef, and we wish you the
courage to trust. May the inspiration of the Spirit of truth
accompany you on your journey. Farewell."
Above my head the hatch opened. The
eight creatures made a respectful bow with one hand held against
their foreheads. I returned the greeting in the same manner.
"Farewell, a thousand thanks."
A while later, Miriam and the children
stood wide eyed to observe the sight of a man with a thoughtful
expression who stood up to his knees in the water and opened a
camera.
He than pulled the film out and threw it in the water. He
then waved in the direction of the black pole as a last greeting,
and climbed on board. It was a beautiful, windless evening and we
all stood on board waiting and wondering what was going to happen.
For the last time we heard the zooming noise as the navigation dome
retracted, but this time the intricately formed black pole remained
extended.
Shortly afterwards, a dull shock went through the ship, as
the astronauts released US and the ship floated once again in its
element. We started drifting with the tide and we could hear the
anchor chain scraping over the surface of the spaceship until it
reached the edge; then the anchor fell and the chain jerked tight.
As I began to wind up the chain, I heard the propulsion system of
the spaceship start working and the black pole began moving through
the water, seaward. I stood watching from the foredeck and was
surprised when I noticed how slowly they were traveling; it could
not have been more than six or seven knots.
It suddenly came to me
that perhaps they did not dare to go any faster with the huge discus
in this water, which was full of sandbanks and shallows, and at the
same time the idea occurred to me that I could perhaps follow them
for a while and might even be able to see something of the takeoff.
I ran aft and quickly started the motor and followed the broad form
wake at full power, despite the protests of Miriam, who could not
see the glamour of this new adventure.
In half an hour we had left
the coast of the inlands of Walcheren and Schouwen behind us and
were on the open sea.
The sun had set in a beautiful red glow and the still dark water
swelled slowly. It had been a strange voyage. The complete
loneliness, the wide expanse of water, and, mostly, the presence of
the strange machine put a pressure on all of US against which my
stubbornness was no match. As soon as I lost sight of the wake left
by the spaceship, I stopped the motor and left the ship to float on
its own while we all had a cup of coffee. In this complete stillness
we sat on deck, tense and listening.
Just as I had decided to give
up and return to harbor, we heard the jangling sound of the
propulsion in the distance. I jumped up, put the binoculars before
my eyes and began feverishly scanning the water.
Miriam saw it
first.
"There, Stef, a light!"
Through the binoculars I saw a huge disc that, with a swaying
motion, rose out of the water.
The light was caused by a sparkling
halo that spread over the whole visible surface of the spaceship.
Close to the water it was yellow-orange, further up yellow-green and
on top blue, and thanks to this lighting effect, I was able to see
the discus quite plainly despite the distance. Suddenly the noise
and the intensity of the light increased.
Some few seconds later the
machine disappeared in a huge cloud of steam. Shortly thereafter, it
appeared again above the cloud, a huge glowing discus that rose at a
steep angle in the form of a spiral with our ship as its middle
point.
The sight was much more impressive than the films I had seen
of space. Actually, there was very little of the discus to be seen;
it was surrounded by an orange-red cloud that prevented a dear view.
Around this cloud hung a huge misty halo which made the spaceship
look bigger than it really was.
The fiery light caused a cry of alarm to
come from Miriam.
She thought that something had gone wrong, but I
was able to reassure her.
"It is quite normal. Things glow
with heat when the propulsion is working."
We stood breathlessly looking at this
unearthly, indescribably impressive show of power from these beings,
who, as a final gesture, flew in a huge circle round our ship, then
rapidly dwindled to a tiny point of red light that was soon lost in
the darkness of the evening sky.
Despite my triumphant feeling that
I had succeeded in seeing the takeoff, I felt strangely lonely, the
sort of feeling that comes after saying good-bye to a good and
trusted friend. Miriam seemed to share something of my feelings, for
she came and stood beside me and put her arm through mine. Before
she could say anything, we again heard the screaming whine of the
propulsion and to our surprise another discus rose out of the water
in the same place.
We witnessed the same display of sparks and the
steam cloud, only this time it did not fly in a spiral, but went
straight up like a rocket.
"Good heavens," whispered Miriam,
"another one of those monsters. How many of them are there?
Please, let's go. If another one goes off, I shall scream!"
I did not answer. I stood as if in a
trance, staring at the point of light until it had disappeared into
the night. For some minutes we stood still on the swaying deck,
hoping or fearing that perhaps a third would take off, but nothing
more happened.
Suddenly Miriam gave a cry.
"There, Stef, there they go!"
High in the dark sky, a speck of light
had appeared.
The first of the machines had broken free of the
Earth's shadow and flew in the light of the sinking sun. Through the
binoculars I saw a misty object that gave off an orange glow and was
surrounded by a misty halo. This was followed shortly by the second
one. Quite suddenly the halos vanished, and they were seemingly free
of the atmosphere and proceeded as two cigar-shaped objects that
were slowly swallowed up in the endlessness of space.
Miriam lay her
head on my shoulder.
"So, have you finished?"
I sighed
and put my arm around her.
"No, dear. They," and I pointed to the place where they had
vanished, "they are finished, but for Us it has just begun!"
PUBLISHER'S NOTE:
The exact date and time of this
first contact event are in fact known as well as other
evidential support.
There are other witnesses and there is
material evidence supporting this story, but in keeping with the contactee's solemn promise never to try to PROVE the reality of
the story or the actual existence of the Iargans, for very good
reason, we have chosen not to reveal it.
Wendelle C.Stevens
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