Something Flat and Broad
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Something rushed up into the sky out of the greyness— rushed slantingly upward and very swiftly into the luminous clearness above the clouds in the western sky; something flat and broad, and very large, that swept round in a vast curve, grew smaller, sank slowly, and vanished again into the grey mystery of the night. And as it flew it rained down darkness upon the land.
Description:
A UFO in the shape of a disk, with a sphere bearing dangling tentacles at its center, hovers over the sea.
The caption reads in the Belgian edition:
Hors de l’horizon grisâtre quelque chose monta dans le ciel, monta obliquement et très rapidement dans la lumineuse clarté, au-dessus des nuages du ciel occidental, un objet plat, large et vaste qui décrivit une courbe immense, diminua peu à peu, s’enfonça lentement et s’évanouit dans le mystère gris de la nuit. Quand il eut disparu, on eût dit qu’il pleuvait des ténèbres.
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