Citizens of Sector Twelve reported a shimmering “haze bloom” drifting across the skyline this afternoon — a translucent aurora-like distortion rippling between two high-rise towers. At first it looked like a glitch in the Sky Grid, but then figures were spotted walking inside the haze, as though pacing along an invisible street suspended in the air.
Witnesses described the silhouettes as humanoid yet slightly blurred, moving with mechanical precision. Several appeared to stop and look down toward the crowd below.
Lucid officials dismissed the phenomenon as “refracted drone shadows,” but every drone in the district was grounded at the time. Resistance analysts believe the haze may be a “cross-layer bleed,” revealing a parallel fold of Veridion stacked atop our own.
One terrified onlooker summed it up:
“I don’t know what’s worse — the idea they’re from another timeline, or the idea they’re from ours… but in the future.”
