22:30 hours, 36.01573,-84.932492
270 feet west of 3132 Peavine Firetower Rd
Outside Crossville, Tennessee
Floyd would later say that he should have gone fishing rather than trudge out into this clearing near the Cartoosa Woods. He would have liked to have said later that he had no idea what had driven him to take his truck out into this field but here he was sitting under a tree looking over the wreckage of his dilapidated 1986 Ford Ranger watching the steam spill out from under the bent hood.
Floyd looked up at the tree and wondered not for the first time in his life, why he had thrown it all away on the likes of Betty Sue Granger. That woman was a no good hussy and sleep-around- well dammit the words did fail him again. Yes he was good and pissed, the buzz from the beers were wearing pretty thin. He got out of his wrecked vehicle and thought idly if he had left his cell phone in the truck when the sudden urge to pass water drove all other concerns from his mind. He stumbled out into the grass and relieved himself of that six pack.
Midstream his cell phone started ringing. He fumbled around, almost caught himself in his zipper and dropped the cell phone that felt like it had burnt up to a hot coal.
As he cussed, looking around in the long grasses the Cingular Harp ring tone went from urgent to shriek and then with a squawk sparked and died in a plume of smoke just as he located it. Floyd stared at the ruin of his cell phone and wondered if they were supposed to do that.He wasn't quite sure and stood there pondering it until he blinked as everything about 4 feet in every direction suddenly blossomed into light.
Fuck, I is being abducted by them aliens like in the movies. Too late he remembered his shotgun was locked in the truck not twenty feet behind him. Too late did he think that looking up into the light might not be a good idea.
He went almost two thirds blind as he looked directly into the hellstorm of what a professor and his team had just called "The Ripple Wave." The corneas of his eyes partially melted as he screamed into the wavelength that only partly struck him as the Signal found purchase on this rock the locals call Earth.
Floyd was lucky, since he immediately passed out. In some ways he was more fortunate not to have had much intelligence or use of his brain- he wouldn't be missing it much for the rest of his life.
The wave flashed into the grasses burning a polyhedron shadow into the dirt below the vegetation. Static electricity began to concentrate until there were barely visible lines forming the dodecahedron approximately 1-2 inches above the curve of the slope that formed the ground below it. The geometric energy field punched out into a sizable shape filling the space near Floyd's inert body covering a distance of 14 meters in diameter.
Inside the energy field formed 4 bright clusters of flashing lights - like a thousand lightning bugs swirling around the others until three of these clusters took on the form similar to the unconscious man below them. The fourth cluster pulsed until it became single sequence of light then faded out of the visual spectrum. The dodecahedron fizzled into wisps of smoke as the wave faded back into the ripple that had been detected earlier and everything about its connection with the Earth lost integrity and became little more than a much diluted radio signal.
Floyd would later say that he should have gone fishing rather than trudge out into this clearing near the Cartoosa Woods. He would have liked to have said later that he had no idea what had driven him to take his truck out into this field but here he was sitting under a tree looking over the wreckage of his dilapidated 1986 Ford Ranger watching the steam spill out from under the bent hood.
Floyd looked up at the tree and wondered not for the first time in his life, why he had thrown it all away on the likes of Betty Sue Granger. That woman was a no good hussy and sleep-around- well dammit the words did fail him again. Yes he was good and pissed, the buzz from the beers were wearing pretty thin. He got out of his wrecked vehicle and thought idly if he had left his cell phone in the truck when the sudden urge to pass water drove all other concerns from his mind. He stumbled out into the grass and relieved himself of that six pack.
Midstream his cell phone started ringing. He fumbled around, almost caught himself in his zipper and dropped the cell phone that felt like it had burnt up to a hot coal.
As he cussed, looking around in the long grasses the Cingular Harp ring tone went from urgent to shriek and then with a squawk sparked and died in a plume of smoke just as he located it. Floyd stared at the ruin of his cell phone and wondered if they were supposed to do that.He wasn't quite sure and stood there pondering it until he blinked as everything about 4 feet in every direction suddenly blossomed into light.
Fuck, I is being abducted by them aliens like in the movies. Too late he remembered his shotgun was locked in the truck not twenty feet behind him. Too late did he think that looking up into the light might not be a good idea.
He went almost two thirds blind as he looked directly into the hellstorm of what a professor and his team had just called "The Ripple Wave." The corneas of his eyes partially melted as he screamed into the wavelength that only partly struck him as the Signal found purchase on this rock the locals call Earth.
Floyd was lucky, since he immediately passed out. In some ways he was more fortunate not to have had much intelligence or use of his brain- he wouldn't be missing it much for the rest of his life.
The wave flashed into the grasses burning a polyhedron shadow into the dirt below the vegetation. Static electricity began to concentrate until there were barely visible lines forming the dodecahedron approximately 1-2 inches above the curve of the slope that formed the ground below it. The geometric energy field punched out into a sizable shape filling the space near Floyd's inert body covering a distance of 14 meters in diameter.
Inside the energy field formed 4 bright clusters of flashing lights - like a thousand lightning bugs swirling around the others until three of these clusters took on the form similar to the unconscious man below them. The fourth cluster pulsed until it became single sequence of light then faded out of the visual spectrum. The dodecahedron fizzled into wisps of smoke as the wave faded back into the ripple that had been detected earlier and everything about its connection with the Earth lost integrity and became little more than a much diluted radio signal.
