Chapter 5 - Bright House

Time: 2031 - 7 - 15 Tuesday 8:00 AM.

Location: ULA - Warmington state - Warmington DC – Bright House.

An old man in a pristine suit with slick gray hair was walking through the lobby surrounded by men and women wearing formal clothes while flipping papers, receiving. phone calls and reporting to the old man

"Mr. President, here is the PDB for today."

Said the man with brown hair, brown eyes, square face, white skin, and a height of 1.8m standing on the right side of the old man, while handing him the file containing the President's Daily Brief also known as PDB.

"Thank you, Bruce."

Said the president as he started looking through the PDB. As he started reading, he began to frown. The more he reads, the deeper his frowning becomes.

"Mr. President, the meeting will start in half an hour, the related secretaries are almost all present."

Said the woman with short blond hair, blue eyes, soft features, white skin, slim figure, and with a height of 1.7m standing on the left side of the president.

"Thank you, Linda."

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Taking turns, the staff around the president started reporting on the go. After 5 minutes, the group finally arrived at the Hexagon Office.

'*sigh* What a comfortable chair.'

Setting down, the President sighs comfortably. Thinking to himself, how could he take the chair with him when his office term is over.

"Your coffee Mr. President."

"Hmm"

The president sipped on his coffee while reading the reports.

"Mr. President, it is almost time for the meeting."

Ten minutes later, Bruce opened the door to the office and said to the president.

"Lead the way."

Bruce led the way, with the president behind him and two secret service guards following. At least the ones that can be seen and are not hidden.

After many twists and turns, they arrived at a high-security underground meeting room.

The underground meeting room was full of screens and lights like in Sci-Fi movies. On the meeting table, a group of men and women were seated. Some of them were wearing suits and some in military uniforms with how many gold stars on their shoulders. All of them seemed like extraordinary people.

"Good morning folks."

Grated the President.

"Mr. President."

"Mr. President Morning."

"Mr. President."

"Mr. President."

All of them stood up and replied, some of them in the military saluted.

"At ease."

The President sat down, followed by the rest of the people present.

"Let us start the meeting."

"Meeting date: Time: 2031 - 7 - 15 Tuesday 8:00 AM."

"Location: -1322"

"Code: Weather Craze"

After the President gave the order to begin, someone started recording the meeting for future use.

"Everyone is aware of the goal of this meeting. What I want to know is why this is happening."

Asked the President with a frown.

"Mr. President, our scientists haven't figured it out yet, they have been working on it tirelessly non-stop since the abnormality was discovered."

Replied Rich Wills, the executive of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The president looked at him up and down without saying anything, making the executive feel uncomfortable.

"Mr. President, also we do not know the cause. NASA's satellite Magnetometer has detected an abnormal magnetic field spreading from these places. Wherever this magnetic field spreads, it will be followed by abnormal weather patterns."

Another man with a blue military suit reported to the President, saving executive Rich from the embarrassment temporarily.

"Chief Raymond, do we know the source of this magnetic field?"

The man in the blue military suit is the chief of the space force. In 2031, although there are no space battleships capable of space warfare yet, some countries have already started building electromagnetic railguns. Not that it will be finished any time soon. However, the moon mining had already started in 2026. Of course, only the world's top countries are enjoying the fruits of the moon as they are called.

"We have sent multiple expeditions to the locations where the abnormality first started. Unfortunately, the magnetic field is causing serious interference with our satellite communication signal; we cannot call through satellite phones. However, one of the locations happened to have a small city with a landline connection, the person in charge of the expedition there is waiting to report"

"Let's get it done."

Hearing this, the President finally relaxed a little. Then the operator started calling the person in charge.

"Call Dr. Akeel."

Some of the people inside the room, including the President, frowned upon hearing a middle-eastern name.

"Don't worry Mr. President, he is one of our citizens and has been working in NASA for more than ten years."

Seeing the reaction of the people around him, Chief Raymond assured them calmly.

"Hmm."

The crowd eased a little hearing what Chief Raymond said.

"Good morning Dr. Akeel. Do you hear me? You can start your report."

Asked the Operator.

"Good evening gentlemen."

Dr. Akeel Greeted.

"Dr. Akeel, this is the President of ULA talking to you. What do you have for us; do you know what the hell is going on here?"

The president did not greet back but asked directly about the situation.

"Hello, Mr. President. Replying to you, we do not know as of yet. We went to the center point where NASA's satellite Magnetometer located the magnetic field, but the Magnetometer we brought did not detect any source on land. The source or point zero as I like to call it is detected in the atmosphere."

Hearing this, some people started looking at each other. They share the same look of confusion.

"Did you try to send an aircraft to point zero?"

Asked the president after a short silence.

"We tried, but the moment the aircraft comes within a certain range of the magnetic field, some sensitive parts in the aircraft will start giving wrong data or stop working. We do not dare risk the aircraft to the pilot at this point."

This time some people that were previously calm started frowning. Especially those in the military.

"Then do you plan to keep looking like that?"

The President asked Chief Raymond this time. Everyone looked at him at the same time.

"Sir, we have acquired antique airplanes that are capable of flight, they are being refurbished and some devices are being added."

Chief Raymond replied calmly.

"When can we see some results?"

"Because those antique planes can't fly for too long, we are building some support facilities. It will take 12 hours to see any useful data."

"Hmm. I want to see a report as soon as you find any good result."

"Yes sir."

"Dr. Akeel, thank you for your service, that's all for now."

Seeing that there is no need for Dr. Akeel anymore, the President waved to the operator to end the call.

"You are welcome, Mr. President."

"Chief Raymond, how is the confidentiality of this matter going?"

The president turned to Chief Raymond again and asked.

"Mr. President, it is impossible to keep it confidential. Our expeditions encountered some expeditions from other countries or the location was within the land of said countries. Some choose to cooperate with us, some countries blocked our expeditions."

Hearing that some countries blocked their ULA Expeditions, some people on the table did not like it from their expression.

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