1. Spooky Lights

Bradley Pinto sat up in bed. His red hair was flat on one side. He blinked and rubbed his sleepy brown eyes. Bradley thought he'd heard a strange noise outside his bedroom. Yawning, he climbed out of bed. He tiptoed by his twin brother's bed. He stepped over the two lumpy sleeping bags on the floor. Bradley put his ear to the door. No noises. He opened the door. Nothing out there.

布拉德利·平托从床上坐起来。 他的一头红头发是平的。 他眨了眨眼睛，揉了揉困倦的棕色眼睛。 布拉德利觉得他听到卧室外面有奇怪的声音。 打了个呵欠，他爬下了床。 他踮着脚尖走过他双胞胎兄弟的床。 他跨过地板上两个凹凸不平的睡袋。 布拉德利把耳朵贴在门上。 没有噪音。他打开了门。 外面什么都没有。

Then he noticed a bright light outside his bedroom window. "Oh my gosh!" he said. Bradley ran to his brother's bed. "Hey, Brian. Wake up!" Bradley whispered. "Umph," Brian mumbled. Bradley poked Brian's leg. "Bri, wake up! There are weird lights in the backyard!" A sleeping bag sat up. Inside it was Nate Hathaway, one of Bradley's best friends. "Let me see!" Nate said. He crawled out of his bag. Nate had black hair, like his sister, Ruth Rose. The twins' older brother, Josh, was best friends with Ruth Rose and her neighbor Dink Duncan. The other sleeping bag popped up. It was Lucy Armstrong. She was Dink's cousin, visiting for a year from California. Her parents were helping build a school on a reservation in Arizona. "What's going on?" Lucy asked. Her blond hair was tied in pigtails. She wore Wonder Woman pajamas.

这时，他注意到卧室窗外有一盏明亮的灯。 “哦，我的天哪！”他说。布拉德利跑到他哥哥的床前。 “嘿,布莱恩。醒醒!”布拉德利低声说。 “嗯，”布莱恩咕哝着。布拉德利戳了一下布莱恩的腿。 “布莱，醒醒！”后院有奇怪的灯光！”一个睡袋坐了起来。 里面是内特·海瑟薇，布拉德利最好的朋友之一。 “让我看看！”内特说。他从包里爬了出来。 内特长着一头黑发，像他的妹妹露丝·罗斯一样。 双胞胎的哥哥乔希是露丝·罗斯和她的邻居丁克·邓肯的好朋友。 另一个睡袋突然出现了。 是露西·阿姆斯特朗。她是丁克的表妹，从加利福尼亚来这里住了一年。 她的父母当时正在亚利桑那州的一个保留地帮忙建一所学校。 “发生什么事了？”露西问。 她的金发扎成辫子。 她穿着神奇女侠睡衣。

Brian grinned from his bed. "Bradley is having a dream," he said. "I am not!" Bradley said. "There's something out there, and I'm going to see what it is!" Bradley put on his slippers and stepped out into the dark hallway. "Wait for us!" Nate said behind him. The four kids tiptoed through the house and down into the kitchen. Bradley pulled open the back door. A strange yellow light filled the backyard. The snow and the barn had turned yellow. "See, I told you!" Bradley said. He stepped out onto the porch. Brian, Nate, and Lucy followed him. "What is it?" Lucy whispered. "It's cold out here!" Brian complained. "Oh my gosh, look!" Nate squealed. Next to the barn, two small creatures hopped around in the middle of a big circle in the snow.

布莱恩躺在床上咧嘴一笑。 “布拉德利有一个梦想，”他说。 “我没有！”布拉德利说。“外面有什么东西，我要去看看它是什么！”布拉德利穿上拖鞋，走到黑暗的走廊里。 “等着我们！”内特在他身后说。 四个孩子蹑手蹑脚地穿过房子，来到厨房。 布拉德利拉开了后门。 一道奇怪的黄光照亮了后院。 雪和谷仓都变黄了。 “看，我告诉过你！”布拉德利说。 他走到门廊上。 布莱恩、内特和露西跟着他。 “什么事？”露西小声说。 “外面好冷啊！”布莱恩抱怨。 “哦，我的天哪，看！”内特叫苦不迭。 在谷仓旁边，两个小动物在雪的大圆圈中间跳来跳去。

They looked like broccoli spears. They had large heads, short arms, and tiny legs. "Aliens!" said Bradley. "What are they doing?" Nate asked. "J-jumping up and down to get warm!" Brian said. "I can see my breath!" "Are they really aliens?" Lucy asked. Nate giggled. "They sure aren't raccoons," he said. "They're definitely aliens," Bradley said. "I saw pictures just like them in my space book." Bradley had gotten UFOs and You for Christmas. "What's that circle in the snow?" Nate asked. "It must be where their spaceship landed," Bradley said.

它们看起来像西兰花的矛。 他们头很大，胳膊很短，腿很细。 “外星人！”布拉德利说。“他们在干什么？”内特问道。 “上上下下跳来跳去取暖！”布莱恩说。 “我能看到我的呼吸！”“他们真的是外星人吗？”露西问。 内特咯咯笑了。“它们肯定不是浣熊，”他说。 “他们绝对是外星人，”布拉德利说。 “我在我的太空书里看到过类似的照片。” 布莱德利圣诞节收到了不明飞行物和你。 “雪里的那个圆圈是什么？”内特问道。 “那一定是他们的飞船着陆的地方，”布拉德利说。

Brian snorted. "Brad, you'll believe anything," he said. "Well, what do you think they are?" Bradley asked.

布莱恩哼了一声。“布拉德，你什么都相信，”他说。 “那么，你认为它们是什么呢？”布拉德利问。