As the event unfolded, the terrified audience discovered that the meteor was actually some kind of spaceship. The reporter on the scene described the emergence of an alien from the spacecraft. “Good heavens, something’s wriggling out of the shadow like a gray snake,” he said, in an appropriately dramatic tone of voice.
“Now it’s another one, and another. They look like tentacles to me. There, I can see the thing’s body. It’s as large as a bear, and it glistens like wet leather. But that face. It….it’s indescribable.