Aliens are not on Earth

Tyler spends all his time staring through the lens of hie telescope. Even during the day, he is looking for anything out of the ordinary. This all started when he was a child, and he thought he saw something weird flying through the sky while on a camping trip.

A bright flash followed, he closed his eyes and when he opened them the object was gone. Ever since that day he has kept watch over the sky waiting for it to return.

“Tyler! Phone!” His sister Melonie screamed up the stairs.

He was now 36 and living in her spare bedroom. She came marching up the stairs into is room. Opening the door, she saw his eye glued to the telescope like always.

“Phone!” She threw it at him, hitting him in the head. Tyler flinch and watched it fall to the floor. He could hear his boss screaming on the other end of it.

“Hey, your boss wants to know why you didn’t show up again.”

Melanie turned to walk out when Tyler’s computer caught her eye.

“I don’t understand why you stay glued to that thing when you have a camera connected to your laptop watching the same spot.”

Tyler picked up the phone. “You wouldn’t understand.” Then hung up the phone.

Melanie rolled her eyes. “You’re going to get fired if you keep doing that. Is finding whatever’s out there really that important?”

Tyler went back to his telescope and said nothing. The anger boiling up in Melonie was too much to contain, and she slammed his door on the way out.

Stomping down the stairs, muttering curses and names she hadn’t called him since they were kids. Marching into the kitchen temper flaring. She went back to mixing the batter for her daughter Tara’s birthday cake when Tyler came flying down the stairs.

“Where are you going!?!” She threw the bowl down and ran out the door after him.

Tyler took Melonie on a long chase before she caught up to him. Diving at his feet, she was able to trip him up, and they both went diving forward towards the ground. Both panting, they caught their breath and came to their feet.

“Why did you follow me?!” Tyler asked.

“You went speeding out of the house! I wanted to know where you were going.”

Tyler turned around. “I saw something just as you left my room. I need to make sure it’s the real thing.”

“If you saw it then it’s saved on your computer!”

Tyler shook his head. “It's not the same. I need to see it up close to make sure it's what I saw when I was younger.”

Melanie sighed. “This obsession of yours is going to drive you crazy. Where are you heading?”

Tyler looked up surprised. “Are you going with me?”

“If seeing this thing will stop you from being this crazy then yes.”

Their neighborhood was on the border of the woods. Tyler lead his sister there and started down a trail that wasn’t a trail but warn down pieces of earth that someone had traveled many times.

They walked for about 20 minutes and Melonie stopped. “Where are we going Tyler. We shouldn’t go too deep into the woods. It gets dangerous.”

Tyler stopped and looked up. “We’re here.”

Melanie looked up. And couldn’t believe what she saw. A rectangular shape with four cylinders pointed down. The air was flowing beneath them like it's being heated.

A smile grew on Tyler’s face. “I knew I wasn’t crazy.”

Melanie couldn’t take her eyes off the ship. “Is this what you’ve been looking for?”

“Yea, I just needed to know I wasn’t crazy. Now I know.”

The ship started descending. It wasn’t much bigger than two stations wagons put together and it landed on the cylinders. Tyler and Melonie watched as it sat in the middle of the woods, jaws wide open and motionless, until a door slide open from the side.

A bright light illuminated from inside. One creature walked out on four legs, torso extended from the center. Two arms, one on each side, and a head. It looked like a person got stuck trying to go through a hole in a table but could control the legs of the table to walk.

Tyler walked up to it, hands up trying to show that he wasn’t a threat. The creature then held a device close to its face, three eyes and holes in the sides of its head. It made sounds into the machine and the device spoke.

“Hello, please nod it you can understand me.”

Tyler and Melonie started nodding. “What are you” Tyler asked.

“My planet is far away from your galaxy. We are traveling around looking for other species that are as evolved as we are or more. Unfortunately, your planet is not up to our level of intelligence. Do not fear, we will not harm you in order to give you more time to evolve.”

Melanie stepped closer to it. The creature crouched and its eyes started glowing. Melanie froze and started floating over the ground.

Tyler was amazed. “Are you doing this?” he asked.

The creature made more sounds into the device.

“Do not be afraid. I am not hurting this one. I am just showing you what you can evolve to.”

Tyler laughed. “I see. This is very impressive; can you teach me?”

“This can not be taught but one day, your kind may be able to do this.”

It put Melonie down and released her. She stood there frozen in fear, staring at her brother.

The creature made more sounds. The device translated.

“We must go now. There're other planets that may have those with a higher intelligence level.”

The creature started walking back towards its ship.

Tyler looked curious. “Why do you think our kind is not intelligent enough to learn from?”

The creature turned its body while it continued walking back to the ship and made a sound.

“For starters, you still use reproductive organs to create offspring.”

Melanie recovered from her frozen state. “How would you do it?” She asked.

The creature swiveled its torso around as it walked on to the ship, the door closed behind it. The sounds of the engines firing up wasn’t loud. The ship levitated off the ground. Rings of distorted air just under the cylinders for about a foot. The engines titled toward the back of the ship and in a blink, it was gone.

Tyler and Melonie stayed staring at the sky for the next five minutes. Tyler broke the silence.

“How about that. There're smarter beings out there.”

Melanie moved towards him. “I don’t know how you can be so calm right now. No one will believe what we just saw, and you seem like you don’t care.”

Tyler smiled. “It’s not that I don’t care. I’ve been looking for them for so long to prove I wasn’t crazy only to find that they were so much smarter than us.”

Melanie put her hand on his shoulder. “Does this mean you are done with looking for them?”

“No, but I won’t be as obsessed with them now that I know they are there.”

The two started walking out of the woods, Tyler smiling and Melonie still a little freaked out.

Tyler helped his sister over a log. “How is Tara’s birthday cake coming.”

Melanie’s eyes grew wider. “HER CAKE!!!”

The two went running back home to finish setting up for the four-year old's party. The whole time, the creature watched from its ship, tilted its head and made a sound, before the ship took off to its next location.