Lost in Magadan: Extraterrestrials on Earth

Unlike the underground passage, the large chamber was lit by a combination of burning fire barrels, torches, and electric lights powered by the hum of local generators. “Why use fire-barrels if you have electricity?” Dale wondered. He knew that he had stumbled onto something important, but what was it?

Glancing around the room, he saw he was alone; then he looked up and noticed the chamber’s ceiling. As expected, it was a concrete dome. Except, above the machine, there was an opening to the night sky. While the machine was about 40 feet in diameter, the circular hole in the chamber’s ceiling was about 50 feet in diameter. Dale realized that the Nazis planned to fly the machine through the hole in the ceiling.

Knowing that he was well-concealed from view, he walked back to the tunnel and told the others what he had found.

“You said the room is not guarded; we can just steal the machine and fly away,” Steve blurted out.

“None of us have been trained to fly our own planes. How are we going to fly that thing, whatever it is?” Adam asked.

“Adam is right, that’s not an option,” Dale insisted.

“We could destroy it with the stovepipe, we got six rockets,” Steve said.

“Maybe, but we know the German’s armor can stand up to the M-9,” Dale objected.

“Their tanks can stand up to it. This is a flying machine. It can’t be as heavy as a Panzer,” Steve said, “I bet we can light her up from here.”

“Then what?” Adam demanded.

“Adam is right, what then? Then the Krauts know where we are, and we may not even destroy the flying machine. I say we find good cover and see what happens,” Dale said.

Suddenly, they heard a blood curdling scream. It was a woman’s scream. Dale ran back to the box and peeked around the corner. Two hundred yards away, near the platform, he could see two guards carrying a woman towards the alter. Even from this distance Dale could tell it was a young woman. She could not be more than 25 years old. She was beautiful and wearing a flowing, ceremonial-looking, nearly see-through, white dress. She was struggling with the two Nazi soldiers, but they just kept dragging her towards the stage. Once on the stage, one of the soldiers held her still, while the other chained her to the platform as she screamed. The one that had been holding, released her, smacked her across the face and spat some German words at her. Dale did not understand what the German said, but he assumed it was a threat, because she stopped screaming. The two guards walked away laughing, then disappeared into a corridor behind the flying machine. The woman was alone on the stage, crying. Dale guessed she was French but could not be sure.

After discussing the situation with his men, they decided that rescuing the woman would most likely reveal their position. They needed to wait and see more.

It seemed like all the Nazi activities were centered on the other side of the large underground chamber, and it was unlikely that they would be discovered among the rows of wooden, swastika-emblazoned boxes. The men took positions where they could see the chamber, the stage, and the flying saucer.

A few minutes later, a German officer walked in and took a seat among the chairs lined up facing the saucer. Dale remembered people discussing ‘foo fighters’ and wondered if this flying saucer was what they were talking about. According to some, foo fighters were highly advanced enemy aircraft that could outmaneuver any American plane.

The room slowly filled with Nazi officers. They were wearing full dress uniforms with red armbands. Many were decorated with ribbons and medals. From their position behind the boxes, the squad could see what was going on. But everyone was speaking in German and none of them could understand it from 200 yards away. The last of the Nazi officers took his seat. Their backs facing Dale and the other three men.

Two more German soldiers appeared from the right side of the chamber, escorting another beautiful woman. Both women appeared to be healthy, and showed no physical signs of torture. The second woman’s ankle was chained to the platform behind the alter, next to the first woman, each stood inside one of the shallow, boxes of dirt. Dale was getting a bad feeling about this. He knew something was happening, something bigger than these two women, something bigger than him and his men.

The two women looked at one another, each knowing that this was going to be a very bad day, if not their last. They trembled before the group of Nazi officers but kept glancing back toward the flying machine. Whatever was going to happen, it was going to happen soon.