They launched a lot of satellites up into space
that circled around the sun, the moon, and the earth
for various clandestine missions.
The aliens took notice and began appearing more often
in the seas and in the skies.
No one knew their purposes or their intents.
Some said they were malignant.
Some said they were benign.
Nobody knew for sure what the aliens were about.
Perhaps they were more actively keeping watch,
testing the mood and the temperature
of the increasing possibility of an all out nuclear war.
to react more visibly should the nukes be about to be launched
and shut all the nukes down to save humans from destroy themselves,
like overlord guardians of the people and the planet.
Bob Boyd