Mystery at Mesa Flat

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Mystery at Mesa Flat

by Ivar Jorgensen

EN·~16 minutes·1 chapter

Chapters

1 total
1

16:33

Description

In the scorching heat of an isolated Arizona desert, a routine patrol turns into a baffling crime scene. A body is found on a white alkali flat, its limbs twisted as if torn by an unseen machine, and the surrounding dust bears the faint outline of a perfect square. The discovery comes just minutes after an alien vessel lifts off for a distant world, and the strange murder seems tied to the secretive mission that the extraterrestrials are desperate to keep hidden.

Two security men from a remote camp are thrust into the mystery, their instincts telling them something is off about the nearby ghost town that has quietly revived. As they piece together clues—a disgruntled guard’s boastful confession, odd footprints, and whispered rumors of uranium hunters—they realize the stakes are far higher than a simple desert homicide. The tension between human curiosity and alien secrecy sets the stage for a tense, slow‑burning investigation that will keep listeners guessing.

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Language

en

Duration

~16 minutes (15K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

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

Release date

2021-11-14

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Ivar Jorgensen

Ivar Jorgensen

A shared science-fiction pen name from the pulp-magazine era, this byline appeared on brisk, imaginative stories in magazines like Amazing, Fantastic, and If. It’s most closely linked with editor and writer Paul W. Fairman, though several other authors also published under it.

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