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From: Joaquim Fernandes <jfernan@esoterica.pt>
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 17:27:02 +0000
Fwd Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 14:22:17 -0500
Subject: Fatima UFO-like Apparitions, 1917 - Book


Fatima UFO-like Apparitions, 1917

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".

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".

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".

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".

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.

A few important and forgot issues of the 1917 events were
uncovered by Joaquim Fernandes and Fina d'Armada, such as:

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...".

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"

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".

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".

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".

We look for an audacious, serious editor to translate and edit
an english version of this work full of NEW information and
scientific approach.

Thanks for all the help.

Joaquim Fernandes
University Fernando Pessoa
Praça Nove de Abril, 349
4249-004 Porto
Portugal