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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.

The silence on the flight deck was heavy. The steady hum of the engines returned to the forefront of Elias's consciousness. "Maya," Elias said quietly after a long moment. 2022---A--V--shaped-object-filmed-by-the-crew-of-an-airliner

The hum of the Boeing 787’s Rolls-Royce engines was a steady, comforting vibration through the soles of Captain Elias Thorne’s shoes. At 37,000 feet over the North Atlantic, the world was reduced to endless gradients of indigo and the soft, amber glow of the flight deck instruments. It was 2:40 AM. Most of the 280 passengers behind the cockpit door were asleep, chasing time zones on their way from London to New York. It was a single, massive structure

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." The five blue lights were embedded directly into