Alien Invasion
True story, May 2001.
I couldn’t sleep that Friday night. The storm raged on for hours. Rain, debris, and branches pelted my Pine Lake, Georgia house. Earlier, an episode of The X-Files had unnerved me. Monstrous aliens were threatening humanity … again.
As sleep took me, the rumbling outside dissolved away. Later, crashing the inky silence, a booming thud shook the house. An alien spaceship just landed on my roof.
Blinding blue light pulsed all around me in sync with a metallic hum. Dust particles danced in its light. The still air felt strange like the oxygen levels dropped. I froze in shock and fear. In a blur, Emily my cat vanished under the bed. I slipped out an unsteady hand from under the covers. I grabbed the phone on my bedstand and dialed 911.
“911. What’s your emergency?”
Speaking in a whisper to stay hidden, I said: “Well, I think a spaceship has landed on my roof. I know it sounds crazy … but …” is all I could manage.
She said something.
I took a breath and explained to her what had happened. “Look, maybe it’s not alien, but something massive the size of a Mack truck is up there.” She told me to remain on the phone. Someone would be out directly.
I waited. The blue pulsing light and constant hum crooned on. My imagination let…
