Eleven years ago, I was standing in a field surrounded by towering trees. As on many nights before, I was taking my dog Scotty for a walk, and then letting him run loose for a short time. This particular night he seemed anxious, restless. He began to howl - a bloodcurdling, evil bark that shattered the stillness on that crisp autumn evening. He seemed to be responding to something only he could sense and then there was an enormous floating cloud, a sort of heavy mist that filled the atmosphere quickly. Suddenly a spaceship with blinking green and yellow lights materialized and landed not so far from where we were. I lost sight of the dog, just heard him barking wildly in the distance. A door opened on the spaceship and a steel gray robotic creature with one red eye in the middle of its head stepped out. It was brandishing a silver sword and it was then when the entire field became engulfed in an overwhelming darkness.
I was in shock and started to run. Somehow, even with all this terror and confusion, I made it home. Breathless, anxious, fearful, I told my wife what I'd seen and heard. She approached me, grabbed my trembling locked fist, and pried it open; Scotty's leash fell soundlessly on the rug. Startled and sobbing, she shrieked, "Where's Scotty? What happened to Scotty?"