Probe
By Ed Thrush
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A mysterious space craft lands on the Utah Salt Flats. A top scientific and military team rush to determine how to deal with a rapidly changing and perplexing situation that could threaten the world.
Ed Thrush
Ed Thrush was born on August 16, 1954. He now lives in Woodlawn, Maryland. Growing up with the original “Outer Limits” television series he was highly influenced by science fiction and followed the space program closely as a child. Recently he obtained all 42 episodes of the Outer Limits and watched them all. An early science fiction reader (among other genres) and lover of sci-fi films, Ed has decided to publish one of his own short stories. It is hoped that this will be the start of more to come.
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Probe - Ed Thrush
Probe
By Ed Thrush
*****
Probe
A Short Story By Ed Thrush
Copyright © 2012 Ed Thrush
Cover:
Object Detail from Garden of Earthly Delights
c1505 by Hieronymus Bosch
Published:
by Ed Thrush at Smashwords
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Type:
Science Fiction Short Story
Abstract:
A mysterious space craft lands on Earth. A scientific and military team rush to determine how to deal with an unknown and changing situation.
ISBN:
9781476472638
*****
Table of Contents
Chapter 1, Monday 7:30 AM _ ENTRY
Chapter 2, Monday 2:00 PM _ THE SHELTER
Chapter 3, Monday 3:30 PM _ PREPARATION
Chapter 4, Monday 4:30 PM _ THE LANDING
Chapter 5, Monday 5:30 PM _ IT’S ALIVE
Chapter 6, Monday 7:30 PM _ DATA
Chapter 7, Tuesday 6:30 AM _ INTRUDER
Chapter 8, Tuesday 6:35 AM _ COLLECTION
Chapter 9, Monday 7:30 PM _ PACKING
Chapter 10, Monday 7:30 PM _ JOURNEY
Chapter 11, Monday 7:45 PM _ MIRRORS
Chapter 12, Monday 10:00 PM _ FINAL CUT
*****
Chapter 1
Monday 7:30 AM _ ENTRY
"A bat out of hell on steroids."
That was the first thing that came to mind as Rhea watched a display reveal a fast moving high-energy object.
Jim! Tom! Take a look at this.
Rhea had seen a huge magnetic fluctuation while looking at live scans of the sky with the new energy collecting telescope located at the Martin R. Scott Science Institute in Frederick, Maryland. The position shifts were fast.
Jim was mesmerized looking at the numerical readouts on the display, Its huge, the field is enormous and whatever is generating it must be fairly sizable.
Tom was dumbstruck, Have you two lost sight of the fact that we have a rather large object traveling at...let me see that (clicking the mouse to update the selected region in space) ...Oh Boy! That comes to about 480,000 miles per hour heading straight for us! That is about three times the fastest meteorite rate recorded, we have an anomaly, not rare for speed but for size, speed and uh… target
Rhea was studying another screen. But it is slowing down,
Tom just stared at her., Oh… I feel much better now!
No, no
, she continued, It’s slowing down real fast, in fact, at the current rate, it looks like it will just about stop when it gets here.
Jim was suddenly apprehensive, "But how can that be, a highly magnetic or otherwise charged asteroid would deflect or crash, not make a descent, it must be a controlled device. I don't like this