The Invasion That Never Happened - Udi Menashe

This is a story of an alien invasion of California, USA in 1970. The funny looking, purple aliens, twenty thousand strong, decided to invade our planet and made the very long journey, from a faraway purple galaxy, for a single reason - to acquire a large amount of \Double AA\ batteries. Why, you might ask, did they need so many batteries? Well, they were desperate to revive a Tape Player, which they obtained in 1967 due to an unplanned \mishap\ in our own space program, which is still unknown..