By Joaquim Fernandes and Fina d' Armada
Translated and Edited by Andrew D. Basiago and Eva M. Thompson
Foreword by Jacques F. Vallée
The best writings in Ufology have always drawn a clear distinction between fact and speculation. Such writings build, by way of ample factual analysis, a solid foundation upon which tentative explanations of the UFO phenomenon can be proposed.
This standard has been achieved only quite rarely in the world of Ufological letters, for example, in Major Donald Keyhoe's early writings about UFO encounters involving military and civilian pilots in the United States; the diligent field investigations of UFO sightings by witnesses on the ground carried out by Dr. J. Allen Hynek; the many books of Dr. Jacques Vallée, with their emphasis upon UFO phenomenology per se; the historical works of Timothy Good, especially Above Top Secret; and the exhaustive studies of the Roswell incident and the MJ-12 documents done by Stanton T. Friedman.
Every once in a while, a work of singular distinction is published that continues in that tradition. The most recent is Heavenly Lights: The Apparitions of Fátima and the UFO Phenomenon, by Portuguese historians Joaquim Fernandes and Fina D'Armada. They have been investigating the Fátima incident since 1978, when they were the first historians given access to the original documents of the case held at the Fátima sanctuary.
Heavenly Lights is both true to the real facts of the Fátima events (as distinguished from hundreds of previous works, which were without rigorous historical support) and abundant in detail (with hundreds of facts taken from the actual historical record).
In Part I, the authors investigate the phenomena associated with the Being of Fátima. What the children encountered was a luminous being, similar in appearance to the aliens described in close encounter cases, that communicated with them, telepathically, as she stood at the end of a beam of light projected from a craft hovering high above them.
In Part II, the authors revisit the Cova da Iria, where the contacts took place, and identify many aspects of the Fátima apparitions that also appear in the modern close encounter literature. These include thunder and lightning-like effects, a strange sound like "the buzzing of bees," bizarre clouds, strange odors, ramps of light, drying breezes, the fall of the peculiar substance "angel hair," and telepathic communication by the alien visitors.
In Part III, the authors explain what actually happened during "The Miracle of the Sun." The evidence indicates that it was not an astronomical event but rather an aerial one that resulted when an alien craft caused a partial eclipse of the Sun and performed other amazing displays that bedazzled the thousands of curious onlookers who came to Fátima.
What emerges is a true telling of the Fátima incident that will stand the test of time as the leading book that establishes the extraterrestrial or inter-dimensional origin of this important case. In the great tradition of fact informing fantasy, so that the conclusions drawn are far-reaching rather than far-fetched, Heavenly Lights is a tour de force.
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Noted parapsychologists Lawrence Kennedy, Ph.D. and Sandra Sitzmann, M.A. are the authors of the books Terra in Transition, Thunderous Days of Change, and Beyond 2000.
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