Elias looked out through the thick, heated glass of the windshield. The stars were brilliant up here, untainted by the atmosphere or city lights below. But as his eyes scanned the horizon, something caught the edge of his vision.
It was a single, massive structure. A seamless chevron, or a shallow 'V', made of a material that seemed to absorb the very starlight around it. It possessed no visible engines, no exhaust plumes, and no wings to provide lift in the thin air. The five blue lights were embedded directly into the leading edge of the wing. 2022---A--V--shaped-object-filmed-by-the-crew-of-an-airliner
"Look at the scale of that thing," Maya whispered, her hands shaking slightly as she held the tablet steady. "It’s huge. It has to be wider than a heavy jet." Elias looked out through the thick, heated glass
The lights weren't moving like a conventional airplane. They didn't flash the rhythmic, reassuring sequence of strobe and navigation beacons. Instead, five steady, pale-blue luminaries formed a perfect, rigid V-shape. It was a single, massive structure
Should the story focus on the of the footage?
Elias checked the Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) display. The screen was clean. There were no transponder replies in that sector. "Nothing on the wire. TCAS isn't painting anything."