Let me see... wouldn't that rotate them out of our plane of existence? I seem to recall that's what happened to the planet of the Bug-Eyed Monsters in "Have Spacesuit Will Travel".
Let's say east-west is x, north-south is y, and altitude is z...
So my stuff moved x-2 miles, y-12 miles, and z+12 feet (all figures approximate), while remaining stationary relative to the percieved "present" on the t axis...
I'll have to reread HSWT again now...