Evening! I need to tell someone about this. I've been sitting on it for a month now and it's driving me crazy. Three weeks ago I was at an estate sale outside of town. Old farmhouse, family clearing out their grandfather's stuff. I collect old documents, historical papers, that kind of thing. It's a hobby. I like holding pieces of the past. There was a box of old police records, nothing classified, just routine stuff from the 70s and 80s. Accident reports, property disputes, that sort of thing. The family said their grandfather had been a deputy for thirty years. I bought the whole box for twenty dollars.
I was going through it at home that night. Most of it was pretty mundane. Then I found something that made my blood run cold. It was a missing person report. Standard form, official letterhead from the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office. But it wasn't from the 70s or 80s. sales are great for finding old police records - Raven' The date at the top read September 15, 2055. Thirty years from now. And the name on the report was mine. Jacob Michael Reeves. My exact birthdate. My current address here in Bend. Physical description matched me perfectly, height, weight, distinguishing marks. Everything.
I must have read it ten times that first night. The details were specific. It said I was last seen on the evening of September 14, 2055, walking into a field on the outskirts of Bend. Multiple witnesses reported seeing strange lights in the sky that same evening. The report listed it as part of a confirmed UFO event. Not 'possible' or 'alleged', confirmed. Like by 2055, they just openly acknowledge these things in official police documents. There was a witness statement from someone named Patricia Reeves. That's my daughter's name. She's six years old right now. In 2055, she'd be thirty-six. The statement said she'd been trying to reach me by phone all day before I disappeared.
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