In May 2011, a 5,000-year-old Air Force helicopter is found in a cave in Afghanistan. Records reveal it wasn’t manufactured until 2021 and that it was assigned the USS John McCain, an aircraft carrier that didn’t exist in 2011.
Intermittent gravitational waves emanating from merging micro-black holes hit Earth with a glancing blow causing individuals and objects in a small area of the Middle East to go forward in time, or in one case, back in time. Scientists at the National Weather Center have never seen overlapping geomatic storms of this magnitude.
Military pilots and aviators are enveloped by this unprecedented event causing travel through time. They encounter historical figures and circumstances that shaped the course of human history. All but one eventually return to the present time but not without a great deal of trial and tribulation. Each plays a role that does not alter history as we know it—but their depiction and participation in events fully explain what really occurred.
Lt Christine Mathis is a newly assigned F-35 aviator onboard the carrier USS John McCain. While attempting to land after a lengthy training mission she encounters bad weather and can’t locate the carrier causing her to divert to Hatzerim Air Base, southwest of Jerusalem. She learns it is the year 2235--200 years in the future.
Major Dan Ashen piloting a CV-22 Osprey, is en route to the carrier from Tel Aviv with the new female Ambassador. He encounters the same weather and attempts to land at Hatzerim but the base is no longer in existence. The landscape has changed. Jerusalem is one-tenth of its normal size.
Cmdr Jay Rover is flying the carrier-based HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopter on a long-range training mission in the Babylon area of Iraq and is nearly downed due to weather. He must land immediately in ever-increasing darkness because of engine problems.
Major Jed Yardway is flying another F-35 and searches in vain for the carrier and other landing sites. Running out of fuel, he performs an emergency hover landing near Mt Sinai/Horeb. The aircraft survives the hard landing but sustains major disabling damage.
Due to the approaching severe weather, Capt. Mauricio Ruiz, recalls all aircraft—jets and helicopters and ordered all crewmembers into life vests. He sends several crewmen to obtain weather information. Suddenly the carrier is engulfed in total darkness and all power is lost. When the crewmen show up 10 minutes later, 10 days have gone by.
Ten years later in 2045, Lt Colonel Butler, piloting a HH-60W helicopter, with a crew of six special tactics personnel, encounters severe weather produced by a second set of gravitational waves and is forced to land near the city of Varanasi on the coast of the Ganges River. But things are different from the city he visited in 2035. There are no cars, electrical lines, no power boats—all are sailing vessels. The Kashi Viswanathan Temple reputed to be over 5,000 years old is new with workers and wooden scaffolding in place. He and his crew are afforded “god-like” status upon landing.
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