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I pulled over because the radio cut out and everything went wei…

I pulled over because the radio cut out and everything went weirdly quiet—no crickets, no wind. Above the treeline there was a dull white “star” that wasn’t moving like the others. It brightened, then split into three lights that held a perfect triangle. The triangle drifted toward the road without making a sound. My phone wouldn’t unlock and the dash clock jumped from 1:13 to 1:47 like it skipped frames. I remember thinking: don’t look straight at it, but my eyes kept snapping back. When it faded, the night noise came back all at once. I drove home shaking. The next day I found a thin line of red dots on my left wrist like a tiny grid, and my boots were covered in fine gray dust even though I never got out of the car.