From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates.nul>
Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 20:10:45 -0400
Fwd Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 20:10:45 -0400
Subject: Fatima And The UFO Phenomenon




Source: EcceNova Editions - British Columbia, Canada

http://www.eccenova.com/Media%20Kit%20Heavenly%20Lights.htm


PRESS RELEASE

For Immediate Release: July 2nd, 2005

New History Reveals the Truth About the Fatima Incident

Authors say Famed Apparitions in 1917 were Close Encounters with
Alien Beings

VICTORIA, BC =96 The Fatima incident was an important event in the
history of religion. In 1917, three little Portuguese shepherds
=96 Jacinta, Francisco, and L=FAcia =96 suddenly encountered the
Virgin Mary, illuminated in the splendor of heavenly lights, who
told the children three secrets about the fate of the Earth. The
contacts were followed by an unexplained aerial phenomenon,
called =93The Miracle of the Sun,=94 in which the Sun was seen to
dance in the sky by thousands of awestruck onlookers who flocked
to Fatima.

The apparitions were presumed to be a case of divine
intervention in human affairs, a sign from Heaven that the world
war then raging in Europe should end. A shrine sprang up at
Fatima that drew millions of believers, and a myth was invented
that the secrets of Fatima would be revealed in the fullness of
time =96 as a testament of faith in a secular age.

In Heavenly Lights (EcceNova Editions; July 2, 2005; $22.95),
Portuguese historians Joaquim Fernandes and Fina d'Armada tell
the true story of the apparitions of Fatima. The first history
of Fatima to be written by Portuguese historians based on the
original documents, Heavenly Lights is the result of a 25-year
odyssey by the authors in search of the actual facts of the
Fatima case. Fernandes and d'Armada began their investigation in
1978, when they were given access to secret archives held at the
Sanctuary of Fatima.

The records of Sister L=FAcia, kept at the archives since the
incident, revealed that the children did not interact with an
apparition of the Virgin Mary but with a hologram of an
extraterrestrial projected on a beam of light from a spacecraft
hovering high above them. The archives clearly showed that the
entities encountered at Fatima were not deities from Heaven but
rather alien beings visiting our planet from =93elsewhere=94 in the
vast Cosmos. This finding was supported by hundreds of other
facts from the time of the apparitions. Fatima, the authors
discovered, was the first major UFO case of the 20th century.

Heavenly Lights is certain to become a definitive history of the
Fatima Incident of 1917. When it was first published in Portugal
in 1995, entitled As Apari=E7=F5es de Fatima e o Fen=F3meno OVNI, the
Jornal de Not=EDcias, a leading Portuguese newspaper, heralded the
work =93a literary success without precedent in the field of
Portuguese ufological studies.=94

Now the whole world can know the truth about the apparitions of
Fatima. This new translation by American journalists Andrew D.
Basiago and Eva M. Thompson offers a powerful argument for both
UFO researchers and religious scholars alike to re-examine the
actual evidence that at last explains the enduring mystery of
the Fatima incident.


About the Authors

Joaquim Fernandes is Professor of History at the University
Fernando Pessoa in Porto, Portugal. He directs the Multicultural
Apparitions Research International Academic Network (Project
MARIAN). His research interests include the history of science
and the comparative anthropology of religion, with an emphasis
on anomalistic phenomena.

Fina d'Armada holds a Master's degree in Women's Studies. She
has written five books about the Fatima incident, all based on
original documents held in the archives =96 three co-authored with
Fernandes =96 and hundreds of articles. Her research interests
include phenomenology, local history, the history of women, and
the era of Portuguese discovery.


About the Book

Heavenly Lights: The Apparitions of Fatima and the UFO
Phenomenon

By Joaquim Fernandes and Fina d'Armada

Translated and Edited by Andrew D. Basiago and Eva M. Thompson

Foreword by Jacques F. Vall=E9e

EcceNova Editions

Publication Date: July 2, 2005

Price: US $22.95, CAD $30.95, ?14.99 ISBN: 0-9735341-3-3


[UFO UpDates thanks Andrew D. Basiago for the lead]