A dream:
Downtown Manhattan, near Battery Park on the west side. I was running late, I had to get home. Standing near a dock. A very fit couple climbed out of the water wearing goggles and swimming caps. They told me they exercised by swimming up and down the Hudson. That had just swam from Midtown. I was really running late.
A man from the coastguard walked towards us. He told us that they had just captured a UFO on Nubble Light, an island/lighthouse off the coast. He pointed. Looking out on the harbor, we could see the Coast Guard tower blinking red where the UFO was. The man invited us to come see the aliens, which felt like shouldn’t have been allowed. He didn’t seem very professional. This was a once in a lifetime opportunity. Now I was really late.
“How long will it take?” I asked.
“An hour and a half,” he said.
I said I couldn’t do it and started to head home. The swimming couple boarded the ferry with him and headed towards Nubble Light.
There was something bad happening. Another ferry out on the harbor had caught fire. It was suddenly a cloudy day. The winds changed. It might storm.