Grounded

audiobook

Grounded

by William Sambrot

EN·~17 minutes·1 chapter

Chapters

1 total

17:13

Description

A remote desert outpost guards the runway for Project Breakaway, the Air Force’s daring attempt to launch a vehicle that could escape Earth’s pull. Lieutenant Colonel Martin oversees the quiet patrol of jets, but a routine day turns chaotic when a strange, plate‑shaped object blazes across the sky, prompting an unauthorized high‑speed chase. The three captains leading the pursuit vanish without a trace, their aircraft inexplicably slamming into a distant ridge, leaving Martin as the sole survivor.

Now high‑ranking officials descend on the base, demanding answers and pressing Martin to recount the impossible flight. As he struggles to explain the baffling maneuver and the eerie sighting, tension builds between duty, secrecy, and the unsettling possibility that something beyond human control has intervened. Listeners are pulled into a tense, atmospheric mystery that hangs between military protocol and the unknown.

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Language

en

Duration

~17 minutes (16K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

United States: Better Publications, Inc.,1954.

Credits

Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net.

Release date

Oct 23, 2022

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

William Sambrot

William Sambrot

1920–2007

Best known for brisk, imaginative short fiction, this mid-century American writer brought science-fiction ideas into mainstream magazines as well as genre venues. His stories often mixed everyday settings with Cold War unease, strange creatures, and one sharp twist after another.

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