Contact has been made according to Xbox User DP Sayre who has discovered and recorded the first alien contact while playing the vast space exploration game Elite: Dangerous – according to a post on Reddit.
Developer Frontier Games seemed to confirm the encounter with a tweet sharing an image of the alien craft with the text, “A report just coming through that a CMDR has experienced something… strange.”
https://twitter.com/EliteDangerous/status/817135524213297153
You can see a Youtube video of the encounter edited together in the video below:
Apparently, the giant sunflowers are called Thargoids, but that’s about all we know of these strange creatures so far…
Happy exploring!
