"Impossible" Variety

Copied from a book called , Visitors From Time , by Marc Davenport.

With trebling hands a 21st-century inventor tries his experiment
again. He notes meter readings , records numbers and watches
his apparatus fade into nothingness. Breathlessly , he performs measurements where the object had been. There has been no mistake.
The apparatus is not invisible; it is gone! His mind whirls as he paces
his basement laboratory. What should he do ? Who should he tell?
A loud noise from behind startles him . He peers through the maze of wires and gadgets to the far side of the room and draws a quick
breath: there, lying broken on the floor, is his apparatus! it must
have materialized in the air and fallen.
But his shock is not over yet. As he squats to examine the
device, he notices the clock is still working... but it's five minutes slow. For
the first time , the real significance of his experiment dawns on
him. The rotating fields he has discovered don't just make things
disappear: they send them into the future!
In a few weeks, he has perfected a working model of a device
that can travel through time- into both the future and the past. He
takes into his confidence a patent attorney, who doesn't believe
his wild claims, but who is nevertheless happy to take his money.
A few days after his patent application is filed, government agents
burst into his makeshift laboratory,pack his equipment and notes into
plastic bags, then load everthing into a truck.He is given a terse
explanation-he must cooperate because national security is at stake.
He blindfolded and taken to a secret underground installation
hours away. He is offerd full use of a completely equipped laboratory
for life plus a huge amount of tax-exempt money- if he agrees to teach
government scientist how to build time machines.It is insinuated that
his cooperation can be arranged against his will, if necessary-and
without the bonus.
He is told invention will be used for historical research and space
exploration. This makes him feel better about the situation , so he agrees
to cooperate. But after he teaches others how to build the devices
, he is disgusted to learn that time machines will also be mass produced
for military use.
Then foreign agents capture a time machine in the field. Another
is stolen by political extremist. Soon there is a black market. Criminals
use them to avoid the law by escaping into the past. Hostile governments
use them abduct politicians and nuclear devices. Terrorists use them
to bring terrifying weapons back from the future. Some gutsy opportunists kidnap children from the past to sell to barren couples for adoption.
Others collect huge fees to take clients back past the ice ages to hunt mammoths and dinosaurs.
In desperation, governments hastily cooperate to form an international ,
interdimensional police force to prevent unauthorized use of time machines. But their job is next to impossible, since their quarry can be anywhere on -
off- the earth during any time period.
Meanwhile, the same invention makes space travel easy. Astronauts
discover that other races. Some of them are at war with others . Some
have studied the earth throughout its history. Their aid is enlisted in the policing effort.
Government in the past manage to shoot down and capture a time
machine. Some of those who learn of the secret are taken bodily into
the future to prevent them from leaking it. Others are kept quiet with
threats. Still others are quieted permanently.

Could this have happened already or will it happen in the future and
could it explain some U.F.O. stories?



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[edit on 22-2-2008 by elevatedone]