Planet: Earth/Chapter Two

2012, White House, Washington D.C., United States of America, Earth

President of the United States Barack Obama was sitting at his desk during a conference. The Secretaries of State, Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Justice, Labor, Transportation, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs were all in attendance, plus three four star Army generals, David Petraeus, Jim Morris, and David Rodruiguez, the director of the CIA Micheal Morrell, and director of the FBI Robert Mueller.

"So," said the President. "I presume everyone here's well. Let's get down to the economy. So we need cut 10% of——"

Suddenly the door of the room slammed open and three men that the President recognized appeared. They were Joseph Biden, his vice president, and the senators of Florida and Iowa Bill Nelson and Chuck Grassley.

"Mr. President, we have a situation." said Biden sitting down in an empty seat.

"What is it?" said Obama. "It better be more important than what we were about to talk about. Another stock market crash? Terrorist bombimg? Spit it out, Joe."

"Take a look at this." Joe slid the picture down the table to Obama.

"And the story on this photograph is?"

"Around 2:30 Central Standard Time this morning, this unidentified object crash-landed in Black Hawk County, Iowa, near the city of Cedar Falls. Reports from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, which detected the object, display not only that the rear of the object produced trillions of ions a millisecond, but it also slowed down during impact. The impact and resulting shockwave of the object were theoretically less that an object of its size, since only about a quarter of the population was awakened during impact." said Biden.

"Wha... but the... and the... but...Wow!" was all the president could comprehend to say.

"So, basically we have a possible extraterrestrial vehicle or something on our hands." explained Grassley.

"Correct." continued Biden."Ten of the local police units are on the scene, but, other then them and a few farmers who witnessed the crash, no civilians will be able to get a look at it until we've figured out what it is."

"Okay, I get it. Now why is he here?" said the president, pointing at Nelson.

"At about the same time, a similar object crash landed near Safety Harbor, Florida, in Pinellas County, near Tampa.

"Same thing?" asked the president.

"Same thing."

"Well, what do you think I should do about it? any suggestions?"

"Mr. President, we have almost all the army, air force, national guard, and marine corps units in the entire United States standing by, plus more than a hundred foreign units. I need you're authorisation to release them."

"Well...Okay, you have my authorisation."