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- In 1917, from May 13 to October 13 ocurred at a rural
spot of Portugal, Cova da Iria, near the village of FATIMA, a serie of
paranormal/religious events which turned to be spread and accepted around
the catholic world as "apparitions of the Virgin Mary".
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- Among ufologists on the other hand, there are many who
feel that the events at FATIMA, in 1917, may have a close and familiar
ufological perspective. Jacques Vallée or Paul Misraki, were some
of the researchers who suspected of that kind of related modern "unidentified
aerial phenomena".
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- Joaquim Fernandes and Fina d'Armada, two Portuguese historians,
challenged themselves to prove these claims, and after six years of intensive
effort they succeded in assembling an impressive body of documentation
and testimonial evidence that suggests new hypothesis to explain the so-called
"Virgin Mary apparitions".
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- In 1982 the two researchers publish a 460 pages book
untitled "Intervenção Extraterrestre em Fátima
- as aparições e o fenómeno OVNI" (Amadora, Livraria
Bertrand) ("Extraterrestrial Intervention in Fatima - the apparitions
and the UFO phenomenon"),which was reedited in 1995 in a revised version
by Editorial Estampa, Lisboa, under the title "Tha Fatima Apparitions
and the UFO Phenomenon".
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- This great work - the most detailed thesis ever published
by Portuguese scholars - on the contrary of most the foreign books about
this event is based on first-hand sources, original interrogations and
statements made by the three principal percipients of the "apparitions",
namely Lucia, Francisco and Jacinta and also a selected group of on hundred
first-hand witnesses of the events.
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- A few important and forgot issues of the 1917 events
were uncovered by Joaquim Fernandes and Fina d'Armada, such as:
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- 1) - a "fourth percipient" namely Carolina
Carreira, whom describes a "telephatic type of contact with a fair-headed
being of small stature who instilled into her head a repetitive order described
as follows: "Come here and say three Ave Marias, come and say three
Ave Marias...".
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- 2) - a surprised description given by Lucia, the eldest
of the three percipients, when at the "Parochial Enquiry" she
spoke of a "very shining lady, about 1 meter and 10 cms in height,
seming to be between 12 and 15 years old, wearing a narrow skirt, a jacket
and a cloak, all with golden cords, running through them. She came from
"above" and vanished-gradually in the inverse direction, made
no facial movements, nor did she articulate her lower lips, and moved only
her hands from time to time. She had a luminous BALL in hand and she turned
her back towards the percipients when she departed"
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- 3) - the authors managed to determine the distance parameters
of the so-called "solar phenomenon" of October 13, 1917, from
the witnesses positions on the ground. J. Fernandes and F. d' Armada found
that they were all within a band of 70 meters wide and running through
the Cova da Iria area, center of that spectacular aerial phenomenon, called
by the vast multitude of people waiting as the "miracle of the sun".
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- This band, oriented south-north, contained all the witnesses
who reported secondaty effects only experienced during the time of the
"solar phenomenon", that is to say at the moment when the "solar
object" descended in a terrifying parabola over the crowd of 60,000
people. The effects felt in that band were: 1. sudden and intense heat;
2. drying of clothing and of the soil; 3. physiological effects or "miraculous
cures".
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- These kind of effects seems consistents, according some
researchers, like nuclear physicists James McCampbell and Jean-Pierre Petit
(CNRS, France), with a "microwave radiation", also detected in
preliminar samples from "crop circles" spots by the biophysics
dr. W. Levengood. Others studies, conducted by the Canadian Institute of
Electrical and Electronic Engineering and the french Toulouse DERMO laboratories
found a "hamming or buzzing effect" inside the percipients's
heads produced by a microwave radiation between 200and 3000 MHz, and called
as "microwave auditive phenomenon", as well perceived and reported
in the 1917 Fatima apparitions scenario as well".
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- We look for an audacious, serious editor to translate
and edit an english version of this work full of NEW information and scientific
approach.
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- Thanks for all the help.
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- Joaquim Fernandes University Fernando Pessoa Praça
Nove de Abril, 349 4249-004 Porto Portugal
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