Black Box

Oh and the car has not been reported stolen."

"Figures," said the trooper.

*****

In a darkened room only lit by computer light a small alert was flashing. The young tech in front of the screen looked it over and immediately called his superior.

"Yes agent," inquired the ambiguous superior.

"I have an aler...," the tech stopped and stared at his screen. "Well I had an alert showing a rocket take off and vectoring towards orbit."

"Had?" asked the superior.

"Well it was here then it just disappeared as you got here," said the tech as he worked his keyboard in order to confirm the alert and find out what happened to it. The superior just stared and waited.

"Sir according to all our readings there was a lift off and it was vectoring to orbit. Normal plasma rocket by the readings then it just vanished. The odd thing sir is that its mass shadow also disappeared."

Raising an eyebrow the detective said,"Mass shadows do not just go away."

"Yes sir I know" said the increasingly harried tech. "Unless you can play with gravity."

The superior straightened up suddenly very worried. "Where did the lift off take place agent?"

"Florida, sir. Florida,"