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In the early 1950s, the world is on edge as mysterious lights dart across the sky, and the Air Force wrestles with a growing flood of saucer reports. Official statements swing between cautious acknowledgment and outright denial, keeping the public in a state of nervous curiosity. The narrative captures the tension of an era teetering between scientific wonder and Cold‑War paranoia.
Everything changes on a frosty Christmas Day when a massive green disc looms over the Capitol and the live television feed cuts to a stunned President. In the brief silence, a towering figure steps into view—tall, olive‑green, with a single, swiveling eye and uncanny, ostrich‑like feet. The world watches, breath held, as the alien stands silently before the seat of power.
What follows is a tense dance of secrecy, diplomacy, and fear as governments scramble to understand the visitor’s purpose. The story follows the first investigators and ordinary citizens drawn into a web of speculation and hidden agendas. Listeners are invited to experience a pulse‑quickening glimpse of an alternate history where the first contact is both awe‑inspiring and unsettling.
Language
en
Duration
~1 hours (114K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2021-10-03
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
1919–1980
A versatile mid-20th-century American writer, he moved easily from pulp-era science fiction to westerns, historical novels, and movie tie-ins. Many of his best-known speculative stories appeared under the pen name Geoff St. Reynard.
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