(Short Blurb) “an observation on first contact” by Richard Nightingale

 On April 4th, 1988 the ship arrived near the south of Guyana. It was first discovered a week ago when it first arrived in the solar system. Sending out a broadcast of bones scraping, this alerted S.E.T.I., who alerted N.A.S.A., who alerted the D.O.D., who alerted the U.N. 

    The craft was headed directly towards the southern region of Guyana and would arrive in a week. They then contacted the president of Guyana (Desmond Hoyte) who eagerly agreed to a joint operation to make contact with this extraterrestrial craft. When the ship arrived on April 4th, it was unlike what anyone had expected. 

    More like a giant snail than a ship, the craft was a rotating 4 tiered structure encircled by a large enamel ring. The ship landed on top of the large designated stage built for it. Thousands of joint governmental workers and nearly 5 billion at home watched as the “ship” landed. 

    The circle around the ship stopped and looped together into a spiral, with the end of the spiral lifting like a hatch. A large plume of steam erupted from the opening. Many in attendance immediately threw up, if not fainting outright, the hatch revealed its inhabitants, a set of 4 entities. 

    In the bottom left looked to be a mass with the legs of a woman covered in laid limbs and fleshy tubes. Above her was a large cloaked head, with a large bone-like circle in its mouth, its eyes looked panicked. On the right side was a hanging body, attached directly to the roof, with long pale limbs hanging below its chest. 

    The very center of the craft looked like a sleeping animal. At first glance, it looked like a xenomorph from the film Alien, but its elongated head turned out to be a “nose” or some kind of promiscuous. Its body was lizard-like but with human physiognomy, human arms grafted onto a quadrupedal animal with a large fat tail. 

    Each of these abominable visitors began to sing a soft orchestral song that hung in the air. This first contact established a strange new relationship with both parties, the visitors did not seem hostile even if they looked like mockeries of humanity. Perhaps this was a misguided parody of us, or a vague attempt to establish a connection amongst carbon-based life, it is never known why they looked like that. 

- Excerpt from “an observation on first contact” by Richard Nightingale.