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Then I noticed that his pupils narrowed and widened as
he communicated with me.
He got up from a triangular chair that was in front of
some control panels, and walked over to receive us.
Rama and the crew leader exchanged glances. It seemed
as though the two of them had planned this visit. When
he looked at me, I instinctively walked with him toward
the control panel. His mouth tended to be still, but I
could hear muffled words and sentences. It sounded as
though he had a heavy accent. Sensing that I had
difficulty understanding him, he changed his mode of
communication. Suddenly, I could hear his voice speak
ing to me inside my head, the same as when Rama and I
had our mind to mind chats.
He showed me around the craft. The instrument
panels looked like a console one would find in a computer
room. There were port holes all around the craft and my
host told me that we were in an observation UFO, with a
crew of four. Up to this moment, I'd seen only two. By
flicking a switch, a screen-like device lit up and we were
able to see outside the spaceship where the other two
crew members were.
"Where do you come from?" I asked.
"We're from a galaxy not too far from here," he said.
He opened a scroll and I could see an oval map with many
kinds of dots on it. He pointed at a group of stars, which
he identified as the constellation of Taro, Star Alcyone,
the Pleiades. He located our own sun, then he showed
me his home planet on the map, which appeared to be
nothing more than a bunch of dots to me. He told me
they had bases on Mars and Venus.
"What about here on Earth?" I asked.
"Not our bases, but UFO bases that all of us are
cooperatively keeping here on Earth. It's our mission as