Deposition of Civilian Witness, detailing the Alien invasion of Berne

‘I was about to go off the clock when the evacuate order came through. Klaxons, sirens, broadcasts on every channel. Even the damn billboards and street signs were telling us to get out of town. I called my wife, or tried, but every network was jammed...jammed or just static. We lived in the central district, worker family housing. I had been supervising the final touches on my chunk of the anti-Tib wall, out on the east side. Half a city away.

?Within ten minutes, I had abandoned my car and started to run. The vehicle exit points had jammed up less than ten minutes after the first alert, plunging the city into gridlock. Seconds later, I was sprinting past Holovision kiosks, and the ones that were still broadcasting, all I could see was destruction. Death. Fire...

?(the subject places head in hands, mutters inaudibly for 48 seconds)

?...so I'm running and I start to hear this low hum. At first I think it's just the static from the public address system, gone dead a few minutes earlier. It isn't, it's something more. Like a machine, but alive, also, somehow. It starts to grow, the sound larger and larger as I sprint, and the sky is now dark, and the city walls are falling, the city walls I helped build...and there are things, things in the sky...

? (the subject places head in hands, mutters inaudibly for 32 seconds)

?...glowing, blue and glossy. Machines, but alive. I keep running. My lungs burn, my sides ache, but I'm getting close to the city. There's a thing in the sky, like the others, but huge, noise deafening, a massive ring, rotating around a central object, some kind of control pod. I am too close to take it all in, to know how it works. It's nearly over me, over central Berne, and now it is glowing, drawing up some kind of energy.

?I lower my head and run.

?For a second, everything is silent, as if the gigantic thing had sucked the sound right out of the air. Then light, everywhere, all consuming. I fall, shielding my eyes.

?Light, light and silence.

?When I come to, there...there is no central Berne, no worker family housing. All gone. Just a pit, gouged from the earth, a pit where a city used to be. At the center, there is something blue...blue and glittering...'

Audio Transcript (Translated) - Deposition of civilian engineering corps forman Martin Hoffesommer, Berne, under hypnotic regression

平民目擊者的證詞，詳述外星人入侵伯爾尼（Berne）的情況

‘當(dāng)我接到疏散令時我剛要下班，喇叭聲，警報聲，每個頻道都有廣播。甚至是該死的廣告牌和路牌都在叫我們離開城市。我打電話給妻子，或者說嘗試打，但是所有網(wǎng)絡(luò)都很擁擠……忙碌音或者干脆只有靜電聲（譯注：靜電噪音）。我們住在中心區(qū)，工人家庭住房。我正在監(jiān)督城市東部反泰礦墻的最后潤色工作，有半個城市遠。

?不到十分鐘，我就棄車轉(zhuǎn)為奔跑。在第一次警報發(fā)出不到十分鐘后，車輛出口就堵上了，造成全城交通堵塞。幾秒鐘后，我沖過全息報刊亭，那些還在廣播的，我看見的只有毀滅，死亡，火災(zāi)……

（詢問對象雙手抱頭，低聲嘀咕了48秒）

……然后我正在跑，開始聽到這種低沉的嗡嗡聲，一開始我以為這只是幾分鐘前失靈的廣播系統(tǒng)的靜電聲。但這不是，這還有更多的東西。像一臺機器，但活著，而且，以某種方式。聲音開始變大，隨著我沖刺，聲音越來越大。而且天空現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)黑了，而且城墻正在倒塌，我?guī)椭ㄔ斓某菈Α夷抢镉袞|西，有東西在天上……

（詢問對象雙手抱頭，低聲嘀咕了32秒）

……發(fā)光，藍色而且有光澤。機器，但是活的。我繼續(xù)奔跑，肺燒的慌，身子兩側(cè)很疼，但是我靠近市區(qū)了。天上有個東西，跟其他東西一樣，但是很大，噪音震耳欲聾，一個巨大的圓環(huán)，圍繞中心物體旋轉(zhuǎn)，像是某種指揮艙。我太靠近它了，難以理解它怎么運作的。它就在我上方，伯爾尼中心，現(xiàn)在它在發(fā)光，吸收某種能量。

?我低下頭趕緊跑。

?片刻間，一切都安靜了，就好像那個巨大的東西從空氣中吸收了所有聲音一樣。然后光，無處不在，吞噬一切，我跌倒了，遮著眼睛。

光，還是光，然后是寂靜。

?當(dāng)我醒來，那里……那里沒有伯爾尼中心區(qū)，沒有工人家庭住房，一切都沒了。只有一個大坑，從地上摳出來的，曾經(jīng)是一座城市的坑。在坑的中心，有什么藍色的東西……藍色而且閃閃發(fā)光……’

音頻記錄（已翻譯）——證詞來自民用工程兵團工頭Martin Hoffesommer，伯爾尼，在催眠狀態(tài)進行的往事回歸