The invasion from Aldebaran

"Invasion from Aldebaran" (original – "Inwazja z Aldebarana") is a well – known humorous story by the Polish science fiction writer Stanislaw LEM, written in 1959. In Russian the story was first published in translation by F. Shirokov in 1960.

The story describes the case of a landing of aliens in the rural hinterland:

Two representatives of the intelligent races of Aldebaran, which will be opened in the year 2685 and related Naraura, that Linnaeus XXX century, to the order of Megaloptera in a subclass of the Calf, in short, two individuals of a species, Megalapteryx Ambigua, Flirts sent syncytial Assembly Aldebaran (also known as final Assembly) to research the possibility of colonization of planets in region VI, the partial peripheral dilution (CPD) arrived on Earth. They were hoping that it lives a highly evolved civilization, as it is in the grip of such civilizations, they saw their goal. After landing, they found a way, but seeing her deplorable condition, faith in the rationality and sophistication of local residents. Then they fell into a hole in the bridge and decided that on their arrival and everyone knows it's a trap. After that, the aliens saw the crooked sign that says "Lower Mytischi – 5 km" and an arrow that points up. The aliens decided that the name of the satellite. Then they met a drunken local resident and tried to make contact. In the result of drunk aliens attacked and broke their equipment, and then told the village about the strange creatures. The locals kill the aliens and smashed their rocket. The invasion did not take place.

Thanks to the radio to read the work very interesting. It is unlikely that it had a significant impact on the development of the phenomenon or eyewitness accounts, but similar stories would later appear in the works that it influenced.

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UFO, which is the alien ship, described by the author in a rather original and humorous way For example:

Perhaps it is worth noting that the inhabitants of Aldebaran in contrast, people are not traveling in the missile; on the contrary, rocket, excluding only the tip travels in them.

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Aliens from Aldebaran is described in the story as follows:

Now would be described as looked arrived, though their appearance is quite well-known. According to the statements of all authors, the inhabitants of Aldebaran, like other organized beings of the galaxy, has many very long tentacles, ending in a hand with six fingers. Aldebarans, in addition, ugly giant caracteriza head and six-fingered tentacles and legs. The older aldebarans which cybernation expedition, called Mtrx, and the youngest, who was at home outstanding Polistrom, — Pugdog.

Communicate with humans using a special device:

The peripatetic telepath, abbreviated to "PE-te", is a device used for the explanation of intelligent creatures living on the planet. Thanks to the hyperspace-connections to universal-meaning the brain, located in Aldebaran, "PE-te" can also translate all kinds of labels with one hundred ninety six thousand languages and dialects of the galaxy. The peripatetic telepath looks like a skunk, but only externally, but inside it is filled with fleshy cells in semantic memory, as are the trunks of the alveolar translator and massive mnemonically iron. Front and rear telepath has a special hole-screen (OE) interplanetary sakasama (verbal-coherent and contemplative Communicator).

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