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Night in America’s western desert is a mixture of peaceful solitude and awe-inspiring views. Across the stark terrain, stretching for hundreds of miles, silence reigned. Overhead, thousands of twinkling stars drew the eyes and expanded the imaginations of those lucky enough to find themselves far removed from the noise and lights of civilization.
Waiting patiently at the predetermined location, a hand-picked group of specialists anxiously scanned the surrounding landscape and strained their ears for the slightest change in the environment.
They didn’t have to wait long.
Precisely on time, barely audible at first, an otherworldly humming noise steadily grew louder and louder before unexpectedly vanishing.
Silence again dominated the barren landscape.
With the abnormal noise gone, everything appeared exactly as it had before…
Except above.
An enormous, saucer-shaped object hovered silently overhead, blotting out half of the stars in the dark sky.
Observing the enormous craft with their mouths hanging open, the various personnel below gasped in amazement as the dark shape in the sky unexpectedly changed. Surprising those waiting below, thousands of lights underneath the object switched on simultaneously, illuminating the ground in an eerie glow.
The assembled persons underneath the object understood the lights meant the time for contact had arrived.
As everyone watching had expected, the beings assumed to be inside the floating disk began their one-way communication with the people on the ground. Everyone strained their necks to watch the floating disk above them as they heard the words in their heads. Although the persons below swore they heard the verbal contact, the sophisticated recording equipment they set up didn’t detect even the slightest sounds.
Beamed directly into their brains, the deduced visitors to our planet hovering above, communicated their well-thought-out message to the select group of human scientists, engineers and other specialized personnel.
Once those on the ground received the entirety of the three-minute-long communication via the inaudible voice in their heads, the lights on the spacecraft shut off.
Once again a silent, dark, hovering disk, the object began slowly floating off into the horizon. Several minutes later, while off in the distance but still visible, the presumed alien spaceship returned to the heavens; at an incredible speed, the object shot up into the skies and instantly vanished into the starry night.
With the craft gone, the people on the ground returned their attention to their sophisticated instruments and began feverishly reviewing the data they’d collected.
Everyone that is, except one person. A single woman who sat perfectly still, exactly as she had during the entire hovering disk event.
Several minutes after the floating disk vanished into the night sky, the chief engineer ran up to the seated woman and reported. “No issues with our instrumentation and equipment at all, my Queen. Everything worked perfectly.”
The mysterious woman nodded in response and the man returned to his computer monitors and heavy equipment.
“Nothing audible recorded, my Queen.” A second man calmly reported to the woman. “Only visual. No sound recorded or detected except the initial humming. On the entire spectrum. Almost as if no actual communication had occurred. The spaceship’s message to humanity didn’t register on our equipment at all.”
Again, the woman nodded, signaling she understood the man’s report.
The third man running up to the woman delivered news their leader hadn’t expected. “My Queen, we intercepted and shot down a civilian drone during the event. A small, commercially purchased drone. Fortunately, it couldn’t have recorded any pictures of the event because of its location. Regardless, my guards are searching for the drone operator now. As previously discussed, they have orders to shoot on sight. No witnesses.”
For the first time since the appearance and disappearance of the flying disk, the woman in command of the entire operation on the ground spoke. “I understand. The drone operator is out there in the desert. Of that I have no doubt. Contact me immediately when you locate him.”
“Yes, my Queen.”
“Only me. Contact only me.” The woman repeated. After she did, the woman’s head of security acknowledged her orders as he bowed and returned to his command tent.
Left alone again, the woman smiled to herself knowingly. After a few moments of reflection, she stood and walked towards her personal helicopter as it slowly revved up faster and faster, leaving the equipment recovery and developing security situation in the capable hands of her department heads.
“It won’t be long now.” She whispered to herself under the tremendous roar of the spinning helicopter blades.
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