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around it. I can’t yet tell you
what it is, except that it is a new vehicle or conveyance of sorts,
but you will already be taking care of some of the loose ends
involved with this object in the next few days.”
    “What kind of vehicle, Herr General?”
    “I truly have no words to explain it without
you thinking that I had lost my mind… Rumor has it that the Reich
secretly recovered something that had crashed into the Black Forest
back in the 30s… No one knows where it came from, but Hitler put
his top engineers into a secret project to figure out how it
worked. I believe some names were Schauburger, Schriewer, Gocke and
an Oberst named Schröder-Stranz… It is the highest of secrets that
the Reich has ever tried to contain, the survival of our race and
our way of life is now forever tied to its total concealment. Even
if you run or perish… you must swear to never divulge any knowledge
of this new technology. No one else in the entire world may ever
know that it exists… or ever existed.”
     
     
    ~~~**^**~~~
     

     
    The Big War
/ Lights In The Sky
     
    The moon appeared suddenly through a gap in
the clouds, illuminating the tops of a flight of P-61 ‘Black Widow’
night fighters, returning from a night hunting mission in Germany’s
Ruhr region.
    The radar equipped night fighter’s current
mission was to seek and destroy German Ju-52 ‘Iron Annie’s’,
evacuating German officers from the soon to be occupied
territory.
    The Germans were trying to sneak them out in
the darkness, thinking that the Allies would not become wise to
their vain attempt.
    The radar operator in the tail of the lead
plane looked in awe as the planes that were a second ago invisible
in the night, suddenly came to life in a spectacle of dancing moon
beams as the higher altitude clouds parted to reveal the aircraft;
reflections bouncing off of the glossy black paint.
    He suddenly felt his stomach drop with the
epiphany that they may now be observed from the ground. He hoped
that the clouds still below them were shielding their location.
    Then it dawned on the radar operator that he
could use the sudden illumination to recover the chocolate bar that
he had dropped during the fighting over Germany. He looked beneath
and behind himself to the left and to the right. At last, there, he
saw the bar in the corner of his canopy, in front of his right
foot.
    He bent over to pick it up and was instantly
distracted when he heard a short burst of gunfire from a
neighboring plane.
    He immediately forgot the candy bar and
popped his head back up to see if the other plane was actually
shooting at something, or just signaling.
    Sometimes the flights would use short bursts
of gunfire to get attention during radio silence.
    He stared at the plane and after his eyes
acclimated, he could make out the silhouette of the gunner through
the other airmen’s glass canopy, making a large over emphasized
gesture with his arm and hand, pointing over and over to something
low to their 6 o’clock.
    After looking only for a moment in the
direction that was gestured to him he was shocked to see a very
bright light. How could he have missed that? It must have just
appeared. It was as bright as a welding torch only it was blue.
    The radar operator watched as the object
rapidly approached the flight of planes.
    He quickly gazed into the radar screen to see
if he was picking up anything, but saw nothing. Suddenly he felt
foolish because he knew that the radar was only forward looking,
but had acted out of instinct.
    He gazed back out into the night and saw the
spectral light gaining on them.
    He hastily adjusted his headset and
announced. “Uh, captain, this is the radar operator, something is
happening and I don’t know how to describe it.”
    The captain returned, “What is it?”
    “A very bright light, like a cutting
torch.”
    “Is it on the ground or in the sky?”
    The R/O replied ever more anxiously, “It’s in
the air and coming fast from our 6. What