Last Shuttle Flight, First Alien Contact Part 1

by J. Jack Bergeron

July 21, 2011 was the final date of NASA's last space exploration flight.
In PART 1 of this fictionalized series of that flight, the crew comes into first contact with alien extraterrestrials who discover the Atlantis space shuttle as they are finishing their last few orbits around Earth.
If earthlings are stunned at this UFO sighting, the aliens are even more stunned. . .

(note: all people in this novel are fictionalized characters who have no relationship or bearing with anyone in the space program past or present.)

81 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 28, 2013

About the author

I have written mostly science fiction books in the past, and I write about things I'm passionate about. I would love to know what life would be like in the future, so I wrote:
'50,000 A.D. The Awakening. (youtube promo videos: bit.ly/1dnGkR4, bit.ly/1HnuYKW)
- It's about a person who survives 50,000 years and wakes up in the future.

My latest book, 'NSA Wormhole Project' is a new book involving wormhole travel and discoveries involving both medieval people and a mysterious race living on a far away planet. (youtube promo videos: bit.ly/1BLw0Os, bit.ly/1LO6ZCu)

My previous book, 'The Royal Kidnapping', is my first attempt at a mystery thriller.
- It's a 'what if' story of Queen Elizabeth II having a son born in 1950 instead of a daughter, and he is later kidnapped and then found almost 50 years later (one tiny little spoiler: he eventually meets his mother the Queen, and she finds out he works for an organized crime mob!). (youtube promo videos: bit.ly/1CET50n, bit.ly/1Jtk8DB)

A book I collaborated in writing:
'GREETINGS EARTHLINGS, My name is Appleton and I come from the planet Reginta.'
- I helped Appleton write this. For those of you who don't believe in UFOs and extraterrestrials, I had the privilege a while back of meeting Appleton the alien from the Omega Star Cluster. I collaborated with him to write a book about his adventurers on Earth. Little did I realize that they had infiltrated both the Democratic and Republican parties but had also been involved with things like Roswell, Stonehenge, Noah's ark, Lockness monster, as well as the Arizona crater (that was actually caused by their space ship crash landing on Earth when they first discovered this planet).
These aliens technology is so advanced they have been able to travel to heaven and back!

'Last Shuttle Flight, First Alien Contact' - PARTS 1, II, III, and an omnibus version.
- This is fantasy of what would have happened if the Space Shuttle Atlantis would have been followed by a flying saucer when it came in for its final landing. (youtube promo videos: bit.ly/1C2mhUf, bit.ly/1IGLfW1)

Reviews

[Tom Johnson · Rating 4 out of 5]

When the Atlantis Shuttle flight was preparing to leave orbit and return to the planet’s surface, no one expected what was to happen. An alien spaceship passing through our solar system recognized our space technology and followed the shuttle craft in to it’s landing at White Sands. Stuart Cobey is vacationing in the national park nearby with his girlfriend, and he was known for his articles on speaking with aliens of higher technology. He is whisked by helicopter to White Sands where he commences dialogue with the alien pilot.

This wasn’t a bad story, though it was a little presumptuous to believe an alien 40 millions years advanced of our technology wouldn’t be able to initiate dialogue without help. Didn’t we learn anything from Star Trek. The awkwardness of Cobey trying to teach the alien our language was a bit contrived. The story ends as a mother ship arrives to take the alien and Cobey to their home planet, so the rest of the story continues in future issues. The novelette was free, as is the sequel, I believe. And it is an interesting concept. Well worth reading, if you have a few hours to kill.