V The Day The Visitors First Arrived

[Joseph Ares-Berziga]

VThe Day The Visitors First Arrived
By Joseph Ares-Berziga

It was a typical Sunday the first day of May, we were
getting ready to go to church and after church we
planned to go for brunch at a local restaurant. We got
in our car drove to church. We arrived at church and
went in. Just before service was about to start we and
the rest of the parishioners felt like we were having
an earthquake. We thought it was just an earthquake
but our Priest decided that we must cancel the service
and evacuate the church for safety reasons. And we
went outside only to see a massive ufo moving overhead
the parishioners and I were awestruck and fearful of
the massive ufo. Some of the parishioners felt dizzy. I
had my trusty pocket camera with me as I took 2 whole
rolls of film of the massive spacecraft.

We decided to go home and we quickly went in my dad's
car my dad, my mom and my grandmother and I. I turned on
the radio and more reports came in of the same
gigantic spacecraft arriving in each of the major
cities of the world my grandmother was in shock when
they announced Rome Italy she has family living there
as well New York, NY. We even felt a low pulsing hum as
our car vibrated. We arrived home got out of the car
went to the living room and turned on the TV where the
rest of my family was there too. There it is I said as
Mike Donovan's film was being shown. My dad and I loved his work as a cameraman. And my mouth went wide open in awe and fear as we get to see more of the ship. We decided to see more coverage and every channel even Disney Channel carried coverage from Los Angeles, CA seems like everybody wanted to know too. We kept the TV and my stereo at home on all the time
just to see what is going on and to be updated if any
thing happens we had a subdued brunch as we tried to
get back our Sunday Schedule CNN Carried live world wide coverage. They even had lots of UFO Believers saying we told you so Whitley Streiber author of Communion and Art Bell Coast to Coast AM w. Art Bell a talk show
about the unexplained was there discussing what these beings will look like. After a delicious brunch, we called our relatives to see if they were ok. They
all said that they were all very frightened to see the huge UFOs.
After we made our calls all continued watching TV till the night and we ordered pizza for dinner and then went to bed.

The very next day we woke up and got ready for school and work it was
difficult getting used to waking up and seeing a gigantic UFO in your
bedroom window. Even the morning news reports were a lot different
too. The only thing strange was the faint vibrations of the low
pulsing hum. Anyways we got ready and we had breakfast and read the
paper which was a special edition had tons of articles on the sightings
of the city sized UFOs. The School Bus Came and off I went to school.
My dad took his car to work at Western Air Lines, My Mom and
Grandmother stayed home tidying up the house while listening to
reports on the radio. I arrived at school and everybody was talking
about the UFOs even when my Dad arrived at work the too were[

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discussing the same topic. So my dad and I tried to get back to our
schedules. I went to all my morning classes. My Dad started working on
cleaning the planes and also proofreading flight logs as well. Hours
passed then it was noon I went to the school Cafe. My dad went to the
work's lunchroom area when all of a sudden we heard this unearthly
sound kind of like a beep beep beep we all stopped eating and went
outside even My Mom and My Grandmother went outside and they heard the
same thing it went on for 1 hour and a half. Next thing My Dad turned
on the Lunchrooms TV, My School brought in the Cafeteria a TV set
where the faculty and students came to watch the live coverage on our
local TV station, My Mom and My Grandmother did the same. We watched
and we heard the sound then something happened one reporter said a
there is a voice transmission I said whoa this is it then a strange
sounding voice a male voice was announcing a series of numbers like a
countdown but to what? They reporters said that the whole world was in
panic and very fearful at what this could be, a few said that is
could be a weapon getting ready to go off others kept hoping and
praying that this hopefully will be all right the countdown continued
and it reached one then 5 minutes of silence as the entire world was
waiting for what is going to happen next. Then the voice came and
said. "Citizens of the planet Earth we bring you greeting and we come
in peace. May we respectfully request the Secretary General of your
United Nations to please come to the top of the United Nations
building in New York at 01.00GMT. This evening Thank you."

We were puzzled and eager to see them. Questions were asked on what
they looked like some UFO believers said they must be like the greys
or like in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Also all the networks
just announced live coverage of the event of the century and I just
saw Kristine Walsh on CNN said that she will be over at the UN
Building she is one of my favourite journalists. Here is what all the
networks had on their promos:

Extra Terrestrial Contact - ABC News

Meeting with Aliens - CBS News

NBC News decided on not to disclose their title promo

CNN News ditto

Well we picked up the order at the restaurant and came home, had the
entire living room set up for to watch the historic event of all time.
It was about 4.59pm pdt when the networks broke in "The Following is a
Special Report from the UN Building" Kristine Walsh of CNN and Dan
Rather of CBS News, ABC News Ted Koppel all were there covering it. At
5.00pm dead silence as Mike Donovan and Tony Leonetti panned the camera
upward to the gigantic UFO to see what was going on he zoomed in to a
opening on underneath the UFO a smaller streamlined craft left the
UFO. We were excited to see the smaller craft. It continued its course
then later it touched down on top of the UN Building it made the air
vibrate also there was the strangest symbol on the nose of the craft
everybody wanted to know what it means and the craft was magnificent
all white with the most tinted windows ever so dark.
The craft opened its hatch then said "Herr General Sekreterare, Var

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intre radd kow upp for trappam" All were puzzled incl us. Somebody
ordered a UN Translator for to decipher the message. He came and he
told us it was Swedish because the Secretary of the UN is from Sweden.
He told what the message said "Mr. Secretary General. Don’t be afraid .
Come up the ramp." The translator told him the message and went into
the craft. About 10 minutes later he emerged he felt fine. All were
relieved to hear that he was ok and we were relieved too. Looks like
he is about to speak. My Fellow Citizens of Earth. These Visitors...
Just as the Secretary General said the word Visitors all the networks
changed their on screen titles to:

Meeting with The Visitors - ABC News

The Visitors First Contact - CBS News

NBC News and CNN both had The Visitors First Meeting at the UN

recap

These Visitors assure me that they come in peace and that they wish to
honour all the covenants of our United Nations Charter. As you will
see they 're much like us although their voices are unusual they asked
for me to speak on their behalf. But I felt everyone would be more
comfortable if their Supreme Commander who is aboard this vessel spoke
directly to you all. And his voice will be heard around the world in
every language necessary. The Secretary General ordered that a special
microphone be used to translate The Supreme Commander of The Visitors
be installed.
Just as soon as the Secretary of the UN left there was eerie silence
as we wait for something to happen just then and there something
happened. A humanoid appeared from the Shuttlecraft which stunned the
world that was watching both evolutionists, creationists, and ufo
believers were amazed that there is actually life beyond our world. He
was a typical middle aged man roughly 6feet 160lbs he wore a strange
looking uniform with the symbol again and some strange markings
several diagonal stripes he wore English Riding boots. He had trouble
seeing he blinked rapidly like he was being blinded by very bright
light he took something form his uniform a pair of typical looking
sunglasses he put them on and approached the podium that had a special
microphone installed and he began to speak his voice was very strange
kind of multi-track and resonant. This is what he said.

"I trust you will forgive me, but our eyes are not accustomed to this
sort of brightness. As the Secretary General has told you, we have
come in peace to all mankind on Earth. Our planet is the fourth in
which you call Sirius some 8.7 light years from your Earth. This is the
first time we have journeyed from our system ,you the first
intelligent life we've encountered. We are pleased to meet you. Our
names would sound peculiar to you, so we my fellow Visitors and I have
chosen simple names from Earth my name is John. The Secretary General
referred to me as a "Supreme Commander" actually I'm sort of an
Admiral responsible for this small fleet around your planet. We've
sent other unmanned craft before us some have monitored the Earth for
some time so we can learn your languages. But some of us are not as
skilled as others so we hope that you will be patient with us. We have
come here on behalf of our Great Leader, Him who governs our united
planet with benevolence and wisdom. We have come because we need your
help. Our planet is in serious environmental difficulty. Far, far worse
than yours. Its reached a stage where we will not be unable to survive
without immediate assistance. There are certain chemicals and
compounds which alone can save our struggling civilization. You can
help us manufacture these. And in return, we’ll gladly share with you
the fruits of all our knowledge. Now that contact is established . We
would like to meet with individual governments so that we may present
requests for certain operating plants around the world to be retooled
for manufacture of the compound, which we need. And we'll reward your
generosity as I have said, by educating your industrial and scientific
complex to the limits of our knowledge helping solve your own
environmental, agricultural, and health dilemmas. Then we'll leave you as
we came in peace. I know if circumstances were reversed and you have
come to visit us, I'd feel a burning curiosity to see the inside of
your spacecraft right away. With that in mind we'd like to have the
Secretary General and five of your journalists accompany us back
aboard our Mother Ship, for what will be the first of many
opportunities to get to know us better."

Reactions to John's speech was mixed.

Some were very positive some negative. In all very excited to see
people from another world.

And the rest is history. As I now end my 5 part short story knowing
that the rest can be seen in V The Original Miniseries DVD and video.
My family and I want to wish you all a wonderful day as our day was
changed by the arrival of The Visitors. The World will never be the
same again. Bye for now.

The End

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