The Disappearance of Delta 9
Date: 19.10.97
Time: 13:24
A prototype fighter aircraft is on a routine test flight. The pilot's heart skips a beat as the radar beeps twice at him. The scanner shows a large blip heading on a direct collision course with his craft.
He scans the radar display for further signs, speaking into his mike at the same time. "Control, I have contact on radar. Unidentified craft flying at 30,000 feet bearing on a collision course. Our reports this morning showed no commercial or military flights in this sector today, please advise, Over."
"Roger Delta 9, change course to ss.........ssss.... an ..........ep......your ey....ssss......peeled.........ver."
"Control, Please repeat, you're breaking up, Control, please respond, Over." His craft shudders around him.
The radar scanner at the flight control tower still shows only one dot moving steadily West. No other contact has been monitored during the course of this flight. The Flight Controller grips the mike receiver on his headset and pulls it closer to his mouth. "Delta 9 you are breaking up! Respond Delta 9!"
The pilot heaves on the joystick, trying in vain to regain control of his craft. His instruments are going haywire. His headphones are filled with the hiss of static. Occasionally he hears his Flight Commander's voice, but it's badly broken up and he can't make it out.
"Control, my instruments are malfunctioning" he reports, hoping they can hear him. A blinding, bright light surrounds the craft, he shuts his eyes against the glare. The craft vanishes.
Everyone in the control tower stares at the radar screen in disbelief. The Radar Controller reports, "His signal's gone, we have no radar contact, Sir."
The Flight Controller shakes his head. "That craft was flying at 30,000 feet, there's no way it could have dropped below radar range in that time." The control room is silent, every head turned towards the blank radar screen.
The Lost Tank Unit
Date: 19.10.97
Time: 14:05
In the Middle East a unit of tanks race through the smoke and fire of a pitched battle. It is part of a peace-keeping force sent to enforce a cease-fire by the United Nations. The cease-fire has not held and the tank unit has been caught in a crossfire whilst passing through a small town. Rockets start to fall around the tanks as they race to escape the danger zone. Shrapnel and charred earth rains down. Huge chunks of stone are hurled skyward from the buildings around them. A shadow passes overhead, keeping pace with the unit as it races through the war torn streets. A blinding light envelopes them. When it dies away they have disappeared. The barrage falls on an empty street.
The Vanishing of Sea-Base 2
Date: 19.10.97
Time: 13:52
At the bottom of the ocean the gigantic mobile missile platform "Sea-Base 2" travels along the seabed, seven kilometers off the coast of Central America. Sea-Base 2 is the latest in underwater technology. The United States has developed her from deep-sea oil drilling platforms. It is the only one of its kind in the world.
Mini-submarines move around it like protective satellites. Despite the lights on board the platform and the spotlights mounted on the exterior, the visibility is almost non-existent at this depth, yet around the platform and its small fleet of submarines a strange glow appears. The light becomes brighter than day - as it dies away again the platform is gone.
The Underground Threat
Date: 19.10.97 to Present
On a remote island in the mid-Atlantic an underground race is building up an unstoppable military force. It has stolen prototypes of the very latest and most powerful military equipment from all around the world. Every component is taken apart, studied and built.
The latest robotics technology has been used to build an army of computerized drones to drive and pilot the war machines. They are programmed to eliminate all opposition — and never fail.
This army has proved to be virtually impossible to track down. The craft used to steal the equipment has a cloaking device and its base is well hidden.
This craft was tracked down for the first time after its radar jammer appeared to malfunction for a few seconds. Using these readings to plot the army's course as
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