The view is of a rolling desert plain—shabby with yellow grass and sagebrush and radiant beneath a purple, cloudless sky. Through this sky, a white, oval-shaped object plummets diagonally toward the ground, flashing and glowing, careening toward the earth at an estimated speed of 200 to 300 miles per hour. Subtly, suddenly, the angle of the object’s descent seems to change, as if trying to save itself from crashing, but the ground rises to meet it, and the object bounces, skips left across...
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