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were just seeing.
    As he looked at them the tall blonde haired Russian settled down on the chair and his face also showed shock.
    “Are those ships?”
     
     
    24 March 2017 13:00 hours
    White House Washington
     
     
    The president of the United States looked at the report on his desk. He knew that that same report was now looked at in several other rooms like his around the world.
    He raised his head and looked at the eyes of General Taylor.
    Taylor was the CJCS and his prime military advisor.
    “Has this report been confirmed?”
    Taylor looked at his president. He knew as well as the president what this meant. The other people in this room knew as well. And they knew the implications it brought.
    “Yes sir. For the past two weeks the probe took continuous pictures of the objects. The images show that the objects are in what appears to be a stationary orbit around Sedna. There are no electronic or any other signs coming from them that the probe can pick up. We will know more in couple of months as the probe has been accelerated by using the thrusters and it should be much closer to Sedna by the end of this year.”
    He turned to the executive from NASA.
    “Are you sure that these objects are ships.”
    The man looked at the general and then he turned toward the president.
    “We looked at them in every possible way sir. The infrared scan confirms our initial findings. And as the probe gets closer to them we will get clearer pictures. I think that I can say with ninety percent certainty that what we are looking are ships.”
    “How come we never saw them before? Can they be ships that arrived recently? Are we dealing with aliens?”
    The scientist smiled at the last remark.
    “As for the last question I’d say that we can take that for granted. Those ships are surely not from this planet. And the elements that the scan revealed shows several materials that are in the unknown list. So yes there might be aliens Mr. President.”
    As the president opened his mouth to speak the scientist continued.
    “But even if there are aliens on those ships sir they are surely dead.”
    “Why do you say that?”
    “After the first pictures and scans arrived and after they were confirmed over the next days you can imagine that every available telescope was turned there. And we took out all the older images from that region and looked more carefully at them. And since we knew what to look for and where to look we found them easily. Those objects are in stable trajectory around 90377 Sedna for at least fourteen years sir. And we believe that they might have been there for a much longer period although we can’t confirm that as the dwarf planet was discovered in 2003. Since they haven’t moved for almost fourteen years I believe it is safe to assume that they are dead in space.”
    The president turned and looked through the window. He thought for a minute before saying anything. What he was about to tell them was already decided by all the presidents of the nations that knew of the discovery. The European Union, Russia, Japan, China, India, Brazil, South Korea, the countries from the Commonwealth, South Africa and several others.  They all had the same information as him. Although he was the one who made the final decision.
    “Gentlemen as of this day the project Long Shot is canceled.”
    The executive from NASA looked shocked.
    “But sir…”
    “That is the final decision Dr. Paterson of all member countries of the project. Instead of building an unmanned ship that will leave this solar system and head for Beta Centauri we will build a ship that will carry a crew to Sedna. You were always dreaming of having unlimited funds. Now you will have them. Tomorrow the Senate is going to approve a new budget for scientific research. Every country that was involved in Long Shot will be represented here as well. Your job will be to build a ship that will take us there. Because if you are right than this is the greatest discovery in the