07-05-2024 - On This Day in Insane History

On July 5th, 2024, an unusual phenomenon occurred high above the skies of Switzerland. Air traffic controllers were stunned when their radar screens began picking up the source of an unknown object traveling at speeds well beyond any terrestrial aircraft. Fighter jets were scrambled from a nearby NATO base to intercept and identify this anomalous visitor.

As the pilots closed in, they were shocked to find not some top secret prototype but what appeared to be an enormous spinning cylinder hovering motionlessly in the atmosphere. Weirder still, along the edges of the object tiny lights could be seen moving about, almost as if being operated by some unseen hands. When attempts were made by the pilots to hail it on standard radio frequencies, only strange rhythmic tones could be heard in reply.

Just when it seemed this puzzle from the heavens could not grow any more bizarre, the cylinder abruptly vanished from sight as though it had never been there at all. Though defense agencies of many nations would launch intensive investigations, no definitive explanation of that strange and brief encounter over the Alps was ever found. The lone piece of evidence retrieved was a small metal shard discovered on the ground below, its origin and purpose as enigmatic as the craft it apparently broke off of during its solitary and tabloid-making visit to our world on that surreal summer day.