Honey, we’ve been viewed by the Earthlings. When UAP’s are seen, they call it being ‘viewed.’ Holy moly, let’s view a triad, a delta formation, shall we? This will be reproduced as part of the OVALS Project. Day 26th of Flash Fiction February

Mike would lay on the front lawn and stare out at the stars. Very much like many other kids around his age of 7 or 8. Kids of all types and kinds and races and genders and locations and every other thing, all love to, when they can ever get a chance, go somewhere and stare out at the stars.

He had heard about UFO’s; there were all the stories and the theories. He wasn’t about the sky at night for the UFO’s. It was the gasp-inspiring expanse of the universe, for him. That’s what it was.

One evening Mike was stretched out, gazing from the yard, and he saw a peculiar triangle of three stars, slowly rotating in the sky.

He thought to himself, “Those can’t be stars.”

In low Earth orbit, three Ovals converse in formation.

“Hey, we’re seen up here.” Corcoran says.

Another, Hao, also notices. “Let’s see if it can hear.” He says. “They’ve been convinced their observation isn’t perceivable.”

“This is my first time, you guys.” Confesses Madrigal

“Your first view?” Says Corcoran. “It’s only my second.”

“My first view too.” Says Hao. “I want to see if it can hear, what is this symbol for them? This formation we’re in?” He asks. “If it can hear me, then it will know that we know it saw us.”

"Triangle.” Madrigal answers.

“Too many syllables.” Hao says. “These things are linear.”

“Try delta… tri.. try delta.” She says. “Delta is a triangle, and it’s used a lot for three, but it’s also the fourth letter of one of their alphabets, so it’s versatile.”

“Delta. Delta. Delta.” Hao directs the words at Mike. He repeats. “Delta. Delta. Delta.”

Mike watches from below as the triangle slowly turns. He doesn’t know that it’s called low earth orbit, but he has surmised that the lights appear to be the size of the stars because of their size in relation to their distance to Mike. In the language a boy that age would use to describe spatial and proximal relationships. Then, out of a corner of the sky, another one of these lights appears and hovers just outside the triad.

“Hey, it’s me, Simpson; I got the juice, make a way for me.”

Corcoran leaves formation to allow Simpson to enter the center of the formation, and then Corcoran returns to formation. In these formations, the Ovals meld their fields. The triad is now taking energy from Simpson’s Oval. Simpson has been buzzing power stations and catastrophes at this mapping in order to help power this mission.

Simpson announces. "OK, you kids, be safe, you make sure to check in with mom and dad!”

Corcoran repeats the preceding maneuver and allows Simpson to exit.

“This is always so refreshing.” Madrigal opines.

Mike watches this process from his front lawn. This was before the massive distribution of pesticides that took out most of the crickets and, therefore, frogs. It was a lively evening. The formation spins quickly twice, then each of the three lights takes turns leaving the formation and returning.

Mike’s head turns to the right as the formation ambles slowly off to the north of where Mike is. He watches them fade off into the stars until they can no longer be discerned from the stars. He sits up and shakes the grass out of his hair. He stands, brushes off his pants, and goes into the house.

Mike approaches his father, who is on a couch, watching television. “Dad, what is it when there are lights in the sky that look like stars, but they aren’t stars; they are just small, so they look farther than they are?” What is that?”

His dad raises his head from the television. “Don’t tell anyone you saw anything like that; all they’ll do is say you’re crazy, and they’ll drive by the house and point to the house and say, ‘That’s the house where the crazy kid lives.’ So don’t say anything about it; forget about it.”

“Um. OK dad.” Mike says. “Oh, dad?” Mike says.

“What now?” His now-annoyed dad responds.

“What does ‘delta’ mean?”

The End.

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