Anonymous 31062

Mars, the Novel by Anonymous 31062

 
In the summer of 1952, in a highly-publicized series of incidents that occurred in the skies over Washington DC, alien aircraft returned to Earth to retrieve the bodies of those who had fallen in Roswell New Mexico. As the US government knows, these astronauts were from Mars...

Actual audio transcript - dated July 19, 1952 - Washington DC - Midnight:

WASHINGTON NATIONAL AIRPORT: "Andrews Tower, do you read? Did you have an airplane in sight west-northwest or east of your airport moving east-bound?"

ANDREWS AIRFORCE BASE: "No, but we just got a call from the Center. We're looking for it."

WASHINGTON: "We've got a big target showing up on our scope. He's just coming in on the west edge of your airport - the northwest edge of it eastbound. He'll be passing right through the northern portion of your field on an east heading. He's about a quarter of a mile from the northwest runway - right over the edge of your northwest runway now."

ANDREWS: "What happened to your target now?"

WASHINGTON: "He's still eastbound. He went directly over Andrews Fields and is now five miles east."

ANDREWS: "Where did he come from?"

WASHINGTON: "We picked him up ourselves at about seven miles east, slightly southeast, and we have been tracking him ever since then. The Center has been tracking him farther than that."

ANDREWS: "Was he waving his course?"

WASHINGTON: "Holding steady course, due east heading."

ANDREWS: "This is Andrews. Our radar tracking says he's got a big fat target out here northeast of Andrews. He says he's got two more south of the field."

WASHINGTON: "Yes, well the Center has about four or five around the Andrews Range station. The Center is working a National Airlines - the Center is working him and vectoring him around his target. He went around Andrews. He saw one of them - looks like [Garbled]. Went by him...or something. He said he's got one about three miles off his right wing right now. There are so many targets around here it is hard to tell as they are not moving very fast..."

Mars. Earth. Reality. Get ready to collide again.

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*WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL GREEN BOOK AWARD - Best Science Fiction Graphic Novel of 2011. This text-only Kindle edition of MARS equals approximately 66,000 words or 330 print pages.