Because he wrote a government report on how to handle alien contact, psychologist Norman Johnson is called to the scene when the Navy discovers a 300-year-old crashed space ship on the Pacific floor. But it turns out to be an American space ship, just not from today’s America.
And yet now we have proof that time travel is possible—and that our own species will do it in the future!

Variants

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  1. Sphere by Michael Crichton (Alfred A. Knopf, June 1987).
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Michael Crichton

Derived Works

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  1. Sphere by Stephen Hauser and Paul Attanasio, directed by Barry Levinson (13 February 1998).