Several young children, eight to ten years old, are looking at the night sky. Suddenly a brilliant red light appears off to the side from where they are looking. It grows larger and larger. By the time one of the children notice the light it has resolved into what looks like a ring with a horizontal rectangle attached to its bottom, all glowing a deep dark red. Bigger, bigger, bigger, it continues to grow larger and larger. Then it zooms over top of them and disappears over the rise.
The children look at each other in amazement, then run for the rise.
They stare at a rectangular slot in the ground. It isn't nearly as big as they thought it would be. It is neatly punched into the earth, too, looking nothing like an impact crater typically appears.
They peer over the edge. The hole goes down and down and down and down. They see a faint glow from deep in its depths. They drop a glowstick down, to gauge how deep the hole is; the glowstick quickly disappears from view. They look at each other, eager to explore themselves, yet also unsure how to best do so. Suddenly the glowstick comes zooming back out of the hole at high speed, glowing brilliantly.
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