Subject E.B.E: The Extraterrestrial Transport | Sci-Fi

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A state trooper encounters a mysterious convoy transporting an extraterrestrial being on a desolate Nevada highway.

📖 Written by Galactic Horrors During a graveyard shift on a desolate Nevada highway, a state trooper stops an unmarked convoy truck leaking freezing, pitch-black liquid onto the asphalt. The driver and armed contractors are too frightened to behave like ordinary smugglers, and the moment the trooper tries to call in the stop, every radio channel carries the same calm federal voice ordering him to forget the truck before he has even given his location. When he forces his way into the cargo hold, his flashlight finds a pale, many-jointed extraterrestrial body suspended in chains, its skin sweating black coolant that freezes before it hits the floor. The convoy’s panic becomes understandable when the refrigeration unit fails and the entity briefly wakes. Before it can speak, several contractors immediately turn their weapons on themselves, not out of loyalty but terror, as if hearing the creature’s voice would do something worse than kill them. A wounded contractor tells the trooper that the alien becomes docile near old nuclear test sites, which is why the route cuts through the Nevada desert instead of any sane transport corridor. Radiation does not poison it; low-level fallout…

People in this episode

Host: Galactic Horrors

Topics covered

• extraterrestrial
• science fiction
• state trooper
• mystery
• nuclear test sites
• paranoia

Keywords

• extraterrestrial
• Nevada
• state trooper
• nuclear
• mystery
• convoy
• science fiction

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Subject E.B.E: The Extraterrestrial Transport

Places: Nevada, Nevada desert

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