I work at NASA and we have found an alien spacecraft

I work at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville Alabama, its an amazing job and I am an integral part of the team here. I work in tech and have been here for 5 years. I am one of the 1% that actually works in the control room. I am a tech, I use the cameras on the space station and shuttles in order to visually check the condition of the hull and monitor the vehicles remotely via camera. Pretty cool job, and I couldn’t want anything else. <br><br>About 3 weeks and 5 days ago I was working a night shift, which is nothing out of the ordinary for me, I do have a family, but nobody really knows what it is I do, that’s how secret this all is, so I’m gonna call my boss Mike, my wife Julie, my son Tommy and my daughter Janice. <br><br>I was working the night shift one night, nothing out of the ordinary, I was looking over the hull of the space station, the shuttles, when I noticed something peculiar. There was something floating near one of our satellites. One of our crew called up to me from the floor and asked me to zoom in on it, which I did. Our monitors display the images from the cameras that I choose in real time. <br><br>It was a craft of some kind, genuinely unlike anything I had ever seen, it was shaped similar to a sphere, with lots of objects protruding from it, pulsing blue lights emanating from it. We called up the satellite operator to check the equipment near that satellite and see if it was a piece of debris which had broken off and was floating there, or a piece of equipment that had been left behind. <br><br>Sat ops went through and checked what equipment was supposed to be near this satellite and nothing was there. My boss Mike radioed up to me and asked me to redirect the camera and zoom in on the area of the satellite that the craft was near. I did so and was able to confirm that the craft was actually attached to one of the solar arrays, the camera zoomed in showed some sort of tether attached to the satellite. <br><br>The operations team all got excited, murmuring and talking amongst themselves. I heard my boss whisper to one of the guys on ops that this was big, really big. The boss called up to me and asked me to zoom out slightly and locate any other debris or objects around the satellite. <br><br>I did so and saw a second object, this one larger than the first. It was also attached to the satellite, I zoomed in and was able to see that it was shaped more like a rectangle, no lights or protrusions on it, it was just a metal looking structure. There was a tether coming from it also which attached into one of the access panels. <br><br>At this the boss asked operations to get mission control on the phone. I heard them on the phone asking for confirmation of the objects, asking for satellite teams to run diagnostics and see if they could find out what was going on. <br><br>After a few minutes, Mission controls response came through the speaker system, I assume that they put the call on speaker so that everyone could hear. Mission control said that the satellite was functioning properly and that as far as they could tell there were no issues. They said that our cameras were likely playing tricks on us and that the images we were receiving were faulty. <br><br>They requested that I change cameras to try and get a different view of the satellite, I did so, but the images were all the same. Three sets of cameras showed the same objects, the same tethers, attached to the satellite. <br><br>At this the boss asked for satellite teams to run full diagnostics of all the equipment on that satellite, including the cameras, and see if they could find what was going on, he also asked for an emergency meeting with all department heads, and they set up a line through the speaker system for Mission Control to listen in. <br><br>The boss set up a new camera to a nearby satellite and asked me to use it to see if I could get a view of the objects from a different angle. I did so and was able to confirm that the satellites were intact, the hulls were undamaged, and that the structure of the satellite was fine. <br><br>I thought nothing more of it, we receive faulty images from time to time, sun glare, or space debris blocking the lens, it’s nothing out of the ordinary. However, during the rest of my shift, I couldn’t help but think about those images, I couldn’t help but think that it was something other than debris or a trick of the light. <br><br>When my shift ended I went home, and the first thing I did was look at my son. 5 year old Tommy, he’s my whole world, and in that moment, all I could think about was his safety, and the safety of my family. It didn’t sit right with me, and I couldn’t stop thinking about it. <br><br>The next day at work, I was told that satellite teams had found the issue, a piece of meteoroid debris had made its way into the camera housing, and had blocked the lens, it was a freak occurrence, but it did happen from time to time, and that this was likely what had happened. <br><br>I was happy that everything was ok, and went on with my work as normal, until one of my colleagues approached me and quietly asked me if I had seen the imagery from the satellite. I said that I had, and I believed they were talking about the faulty images. <br><br>They told me that the imagery that we had seen was not the actual imagery that was taken from the satellite. They said that they had been called to the boss’s office, with a number of other colleagues and given imagery to be Photoshopped in order to make the satellite appear intact and as though nothing was attached to it. <br><br>I probed a little more, asking what was wrong, and what the actual images had shown, but they said that they weren’t allowed to discuss it and walked away. <br><br>At lunch I went up to the canteen as I always do, I met up with some colleagues and we were chatting about our weekends. One of my colleagues who I am quite friendly with, Jack, was there. I quietly asked him what was going on, he raised an eyebrow and asked me what I meant. I asked him about the satellite and if he had heard anything. <br><br>He leaned in close to me and told me that his wife worked in IT and she was tasked with blocking all emails and messages to and from Mission Control. He said that she told him it was weird, and that normally they would be allowed to communicate freely with Mission Control, but that the boss had personally come down and oversee the blocking. <br><br>As we were talking my boss walked past, I nodded to him as he went past, he looked directly at me, stopped and came over to our table. He sat down and joined our conversation, asking what we were talking about. I played it off and told him that we were talking about the game last night. He continued to sit with us, politely chatting, but I could tell by the look in his eyes that he was checking up on me. <br><br>That afternoon I had a meeting with my boss to discuss my shift patterns for the next month, I walked into his office and as I sat down he shut the door and told me that he knew I was asking questions, and that he would appreciate it if I stopped. He handed me a folder containing my shifts, and as I went to walk out he stopped me. <br><br>He told me that I had a great career ahead of me, a wonderful family, and that he would hate to see anything happen to any of those things. <br><br>I walked out and down to the canteen, I spent the rest of the afternoon there, until I got a call from my son’s school. He had gotten upset and was asking for me, so I left work and went to pick him up. I took the rest of the day off to spend with him. <br><br>That evening as I was walking up the drive to my house I noticed a man in a black suit standing by my neighbours house, as I got closer he turned and walked away. I pointed it out to my wife when I got in the house, and she told me not to worry about it. <br><br>The next few days I noticed more and more men in black suits around my house, some would knock on the door, but leave when I answered, others just stood on the street corner. I stopped bringing Tommy to school, and started keeping him home with me, but it didn’t seem to matter. <br><br>There was always someone there, always watching. <br><br>On Sunday I decided to take my family to church, I’m not overly religious, but my wife is, and we hadn’t been for a few weeks, so off we went. I parked up, and as I did I noticed a black van with blacked out windows parked across the road from the church. I pointed it out to my wife who again told me to drop it. <br><br>As we walked into the church I noticed two men standing at the back near the entrance, they were wearing black suits and sunglasses. I grabbed my wife’s arm and stopped her, I asked her if she saw them, she said she did, and that she was sick of me being paranoid. <br><br>I told her everything we had found out at work, about the satellite and the funny looks I had been getting. She looked at me, then back at the two men at the entrance, she nodded and we turned and left, with Tommy and Janice. We got into the car and drove home. <br><br>When we got home I sat my wife down and asked her straight if she knew anything, and if there was anything that she needed to tell me. She burst into tears and told me that she had also been getting funny looks at work