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The silence on the flight deck was heavy. The steady hum of the engines returned to the forefront of Elias's consciousness. "Maya," Elias said quietly after a long moment.

The lights weren't moving like a conventional airplane. They didn't flash the rhythmic, reassuring sequence of strobe and navigation beacons. Instead, five steady, pale-blue luminaries formed a perfect, rigid V-shape. 2022---A--V--shaped-object-filmed-by-the-crew-of-an-airliner

The hum of the Boeing 787’s Rolls-Royce engines was a steady, comforting vibration through the soles of Captain Elias Thorne’s shoes. At 37,000 feet over the North Atlantic, the world was reduced to endless gradients of indigo and the soft, amber glow of the flight deck instruments. It was 2:40 AM. Most of the 280 passengers behind the cockpit door were asleep, chasing time zones on their way from London to New York. The silence on the flight deck was heavy