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penetrate what is inside it, if anything. We know its dimensions but we don’t know its mass or actual composition.”
         “But it could have a large fighting force in there with weaponry we can’t even imagine,” Jake added.
         Mark continued, “We know that it apparently arrived here completely undetected.”
         “Yea… like a frigging Klingon Bird of Prey out of Star Trek using a cloaking device!”
         “Exactly. So we should assume it has the ability to reflect radar and perhaps even deflect light itself. Which means that were we to attack it, it might be able to just disappear on us. It would be there somewhere but we wouldn’t know where.”
         Jake just shook his head, “We will have to shoot at something we can’t see with missiles that just disappear before they hit the target.”
         Mark went on, “That’s the next thing we know: The Object can somehow eliminate our missiles with no apparent leftovers – no explosion, no fragments, no nothing. No energy signs. If they can do that to missiles streaking at them, what else can they do that to?”
         Jake held up his hand to stop Mark. “They? Who’s ‘they’? Is there a ‘they’?”
         “Something or somebody sent the video and the text message about not shooting anymore missiles at it. This is something else we know. And I’m going to keep saying they until I know better. They somehow know how to speak English…and damn near every other language in the world. And beyond that, they somehow could hack into every computer and smart phone in the world at the same time and deliver the same message. We can’t do that. Google can’t do that. And our friends at the NSA can’t do that.”
         “I sure hope these guys are friendly!” Jake muttered.
         Mark’s cell phone rang and he checked the caller ID and saw it was his nephew. He was about to push the call to voicemail but frustrated with the direction of his conversation with Jake, he took the call. “What’s up David? I’m sort of busy right now.”
         “Hi Uncle Mark. Sorry to disturb you but I’ve been assigned to write about The Object for The Washington Post and I wondered if The Object was communicating with the Government in any way? Are you caught up in any activity related to The Object?”
         “You know if I am, I couldn’t tell you. Everything about The Object is classified right now.”
         “I thought that would probably be true. But I had to ask. And we hadn’t talked for a while, so I just thought I’d call.”
         Mark was about to end the call, when he thought of something. “David, what exactly does The Post want you to do?”
         “The editor knows I have a lot of contacts in the physics community. He wants me to write about The Object from the standpoint of the science involved. There seems to be a lot about The Object that doesn’t seem to make any sense to us. What we have already seen from it we would have said was impossible.”
         Mark realized that he needed to reach out to the science community more than he had been doing. “Yea, I know. Are you going to speak to that Nobel Prize winning Physics professor you wrote the book with – Dr. Wheeling?”
         “He’s next on my list.”
         “Perhaps you could do something for me. If he has any ideas about The Object – no matter how farfetched, could you call me and tell me about them?”
         David thought for a second, “Sure, I’ll do that. But I have to ask you a question first. And I realize you can’t tell me anything you know. But it would be very helpful in my conversation with Janis Wheeling if I can tell him what the Government doesn’t know.”
         “You want to know what I don’t know?” Mark asked.
         “That’s it. I want to know if the Government knows any more than what the public seems to know. Has there been any communication with it”