ET- Electron Control

He could not understand their questioning jabber. He pointed at the five balls, and released an electron elevator from his fingertips. The balls rose up in the air and floated above the children’s heads.

  The balls orbited there, round and round, as the children groaned, the strength seeming to have gone out of their legs.

  “Oh . . . no . . .”

  Had he offended them?

  He switched off the electron blanket and the balls fell to the floor.

- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial in His Adventure on Earth, chapter 5