Mr. Rogers Hugging a Sasquatch

If this isn't science fiction, I don't know what is.

A Personal Account

I would like to briefly relate an experience I had as a child.

I was about eight or nine. It was an autumn night. I lay asleep on the top bunk in the upstairs bedroom of our house in Reading, MA. I had been sleeping for several hours evidently because suddenly I woke up to a dark room and a strange glow coming from the window at the foot of my bed. I crawled forward to look out the window. Behind the leafless trees of the neighborhood hung an object that appeared to be the sun at dusk. It was reddish-orange. Its outline and form seemed broken up much like a setting sun just above the horizon. It was moving. It was moving slowly upwards. And then, as i looked, it moved slowly back downwards. I called my dad and he came running into my room. I pointed out the window and he looked at the strange object that had woken me from a deep sleep.

My memory ends there.

Tunguska Event

The Tunguska Event occured in 1908 in Siberia. An unexplained explosion with the power of an atomic bomb leveled acres of forest and created powerful shock and heat waves which damaged property for hundreds of miles. Expeditions to the site of the explosion revealed no impact crater and, strangely, microscopic glass spheres in the soil. The most accepted explanation is that a meteroid exploded 3-4 miles above the earth's surface.

Invisibility

Scientists at the Imperial College London have recently developed a material which is able to divert electromagnetic waves--including light--around an object. As light approaches this material it is diverted by the metamaterial which has been tuned to redirect light particles onto a different path. Because no light comes into contact with the surface, and light is needed to make something visible, an object covered by this material could be rendered invisible. Presently, the material can only be tuned to one particular wavelength of light at a time. They are still working on making the material able to simultaneously refract every wavelength of light.

Now, a question: What would be the first thing you would do if you had an invisibility cloak?