Excerpt #1: Blue Light Night (from Double Play)

    Hannah Foreman fired up her laptop and logged on to her favorite website, Sightings.net. Hannah considered herself to be a “ufologist,” someone who studies reports, visual records, physical evidence and other phenomena related to unidentified flying objects or UFOs.

      One of the most famous incidents, a reported UFO crash near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947 gained international momentum until it was supposedly debunked by the military as nothing more than a downed weather balloon. Probably half of the people who have heard the story still believe it was a flying saucer that crashed near Roswell, and that an alien creature that was a passenger on the craft was captured by military personnel and examined by Army doctors.

      Hannah Foreman was one of those people.

      When her computer came to life, she opened the website and clicked on the link called True Stories of Alien Encounters where she began to type a comment. After months of visiting the site and reading other people’s tales of alien abduction, torture, physical examination and worse, she finally had her own story to tell, and she couldn’t type the words fast enough. Using her screen name HanSolo37, she wrote the following:

      Shit’s getting real, people. Last night it finally happened to me. I was almost asleep when I heard a strange whirring sound, like some kind of mechanical device spinning very fast, outside my apartment. Just then, a weird blue light shot through my bedroom window and scared the living crap out of me. Then there was a beeping noise and the light got brighter and then it turned to red and then to green and finally bright white. The whirring noise got louder and then the light disappeared and the sound went away. I was too scared to look outside. I just stayed in bed and covered my head and shook for half an hour. Has this ever happened to anybody else?

      Almost instantly, comments starting flooding in from dozens of other readers around the world who reported having similar experiences. The stories were all somewhat different but most of them shared a common thread that involved whirring and beeping noises and a strange blue light.