1947: The Greys’ Odyssey to Earth
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Since the days of my childhood, I was a stargazer. Back in the early evening of the day of my fifth birthday in 2015, grandpa Gus took me to the front yard of his home and pointed to the heavens. In my hands I cherished a toy Space Shuttle. Grandpa said, “Look C.A.! It’s a half moon tonight!”
Then pointing to the heavens, he said, “There! That is Venus, the brightest body in the night sky other than the moon.”
My eyes followed his hand, bewildered by the beauty of the shiny lights in the heavens. Grandpa went on, “One day during your lifetime, mankind will explore the stars and establish contact with the peoples that live by those shiny points. We’ll make friends with them, trade, and go vacationing to their home worlds. And they’ll come here to visit us too!”
Full of curiosity to learn more about our future extraterrestrial friends, I asked, “Grandpa. Will there be good guys and bad guys amongst them?”
Grandpa looked at me, reflected for a few seconds, and replied, “Many will be good, gentle and kind knights in shining armor. Perhaps a few will be bad knights. And people all over the galaxy may have character defects, such as getting upset if things don’t go their way. So, most of them will be in various shades of Gray!”
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It is 2065, and a year has passed since the people of Earth formally established relations with several extraterrestrial races. Appearances suggest that a new age of peace, economic prosperity, and enlightenment has begun.
One group of aliens in particular, the Greys, are an advanced and peaceful race. Human journalist C. A. Wyatt is in the process of writing a book about the Greys’ odyssey from their home world, planet Zeta, to Earth and their crash landing near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. Their journey begins with the invasion of Zeta in 1944 by an aggressive alien species called Reptoids, just as the Greys’ spaceship, Zeta’s Hope, is about to be launched on an expedition to the uninhabited planet of Avalonia with fifty colonists—made up of both Greys and their human-like allies from planet Amigo. As crew of the ship voyages to various planets, they face a variety of problems, both internal and external, but eventually they set out to meet the humans of Earth, hoping for form a new alliance. But when those plans go awry, the fates of the Greys and of humanity will change forever.
In this science fiction novel, set in 2065, aliens known as Greys recall their journey to Earth in the 1940s through interviews with a human journalist.
About the Author
Gus V. holds a BS in electrical engineering and a master’s degree in engineering management; he worked for more than thirty-two years as an aerospace engineer at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center before retiring in late 2008. He is the author of Memories from the Land of the Intolerant Tyrant, about the Cuban Revolution and life in Cuba, and Out of Numbness, on addiction and recovery.