The Star Mouse by Fredric Brown - Fredric Brown Short Stories
The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast - Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories
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Minnie, Something Is Wrong
Professor Oberberger was worried when the rocket wasn't there. He used his 8-inch reflector through a hole in the roof to look for it. The darn thing was going in circles, circles which appeared to constitute an orbit about something that couldn't possibly be there. After those concentric circles, Minnie, not even Einstein could calculate where it will land, not even me. We dare not publish what we saw, for it would not be believed. But Minnie, we shall hope, one hundred fifty thousand miles out it was, it will fall back upon the earth but I cannot tell where.
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