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We first detected the alien craft as it came out of Saturn’s shadow.

It approached slowly, but purposefully, a space-age Santa Maria. World leaders scrambled to be first to contact, with welcome messages drafted, disputed, deleted and finally delivered.

The ship made no reply, and kept heading toward us.

Wonder started to become fear. Was this not an emissary, but an invasion?

We watched, powerless, as they came closer. Presidents and Prime Ministers stood anxiously in briefing rooms as the ship passed the moon.

It grazed our atmosphere before passing on. Never signalling, never stopping, never noticing we were there.

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