Within seconds things went from calm to total panic at every military command station, with red alerts blaring and people yelling. Fighter jets were immediately scrambled to intercept something very large descending through the atmosphere -- something quite obviously not of this Earth. The object slowed to a silent hover but displayed no signs of hostility. One of the Generals strongly suggested the object be immediately neutralized with atomic weapons, but was overruled and the squadrons were ordered to hold their fire. Shortly after, Central Command lost all control of their computers as if hijacked by some super-hacker. Ten minutes later a strange but human-like voice began to speak very clearly: "Apologies for the delay as it took some time to decode and update your language translator. We need to talk." ----------- (PSP, AI input and manual postwork)