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    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEd Thrush
    Release dateMay 17, 2012
    ISBN9781476472638
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    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

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      By Ed Thrush

      *****

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      A Short Story By Ed Thrush

      Copyright © 2012 Ed Thrush

      Cover:

      Object Detail from Garden of Earthly Delights c1505 by Hieronymus Bosch

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      by Ed Thrush at Smashwords

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      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

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      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

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