[ WP ] Aliens have been searching for life in the Milky Way for centuries . After finding our solar system , they visit each planet one at a time , all they find up until they reach earth are holograms of a man dancing .

Last week, a message was received from the stars. We had seen the impossible craft approaching. All had awaited the approach of these beings since their sighting by an amateur astronomer in Grand Rapids, Michigan a few months prior. They were seen hopping from Uranus to Saturn to Jupiter & across the asteroid belt, coming toward Earth, one planet at a time, staying for no more than 3 days on each planet. Upon leaving Mars, all radio wavelengths across Earth bore a code whose ceaseless transmission lasted 24 hours. Upon translation, it claimed that the approaching beings had received our holographic messages left upon the Northern Poles of all the other celestial objects orbiting our light source. This is where the true confusion began. 
 
 As the extra-solar beings lowered their 4 dimensional craft on the edge of Temecula, California, a massive crowd had gathered under military supervision. A fissure emerged from the ship hovering above the beach & a long plank of light extended slowly until it reached the sands. As the first creature emerged, fully nude, its appearance frightened many of the citizens. The being ceased its advance. The military knew better than to fire at anyone, all humans within a 5 mile radius had been rigorously screened & cleared by America & the U.N. Security Council before being given the privilege to observe the momentous event known as First Contact. 
 
 Once the crowd silenced itself, the creature advanced to the end of the light which held it aloft. Upon reaching the sand, it halted. A single appendage from the 12 foot being's left side stretched beyond the plank, over the sand, & remained for one second before being withdrawn. It again extended its highest & leftmost gelatinous tentacle beyond the threshold of the light, into the same spot, and held it there for one second. It then began to wiggle the appendage about in the air. Looks of confusion spread among us Earthlings. The squid-like creature then spun in a full circle. 
 
 More perplexed gasps & murmurs made their way across the crowd, the living rooms, the pubs of Earth, all attempting to discern the purpose. Did it want a handshake? Was it responding to the messages it thought we had strewn across the solar system? What was that message? Who had left it? 
 
 The X-Files being, in all of its incarnate enigma, stretched forward its rightmost tentacle for one second, retracted it, re-extended it, & shook it, only to turn in a full circle once again. 
 
 The children rushed forward toward the creature, surrounding it, much to the chagrin of the military & their parents. They came within reaching distance of the being & continued the ritual we had forgotten in our adulthood: The Hokey Pokey. 
 
 We had forgotten what it was all about.
