New History Reveals
the Truth About
the Fatima Incident Translated and Edited by Andrew D. Basiago and
Eva M. Thompson
Foreword by Jacques F. Vallée
VICTORIA, BC – The Fátima incident was an important event in the
history of religion. In 1917, three little Portuguese shepherds – Jacinta,
Francisco, and Lúcia – 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 “The
Miracle of the Sun,” in which the Sun was seen to dance in
the sky by thousands of awestruck onlookers who flocked to Fátima.
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 Fátima that drew
millions of believers, and a myth was invented that the secrets of
Fátima would be revealed in the fullness of time – as
a testament of faith in a secular age.
In Heavenly Lights, Portuguese historians Joaquim Fernandes and Fina
d’ Armada tell the true story of the apparitions of Fátima.
The first history of Fátima to be written by Portuguese historians
based on the true original documents, Heavenly Lights is the result
of a 25-year odyssey by the authors in search of the actual facts
of the Fátima case. Fernandes and d’ Armada began their
investigation in 1978, when they were given access to secret archives
held at the Sanctuary of Fátima.
The records of Sister Lúcia, kept at the archives since the
incident, revealed that the children did not interact with an apparition
of the Virgin Mary but with a kind of hologram of an unidentified
source projected through a beam of light from the sky above them.
The archives clearly showed that the entities encountered at Fátima
were not deities from Heaven but rather multidimensional beings from “elsewhere” in
the vast Cosmos. This finding was supported by hundreds of other
facts from the time of the apparitions. Fátima, the authors
discovered, was the first major UFO-like case of the 20th century.
It contains in anticipation all the phenomenological features of
the modern aerial events and also the physical, psychological and
spiritual patterns of the contemporary “contactee syndrome” as
an altered state of consciousness.
The seers agree that the Being “never smiled nor looked sad,
but was always serious.” Furthermore, she never directed her
gaze toward the multitude of onlookers, nor did she perform the sign
of the cross, pray, or unravel the beads of the Rosary. Francisco,
who could not hear the Lady, noticed another detail: the immobility
of her mouth.
And as for her hands? At least she moved them when she manipulated
the ball. When she spoke, Lúcia told the priest of the parish “she
separated her hands a little more or less the distance of her shoulders.” To
the Dutch priest, Huberto Iongen, Lúcia allows us to perceive
that on the fourth and fifth visits, the Lady did not move her hands,
while during the sixth “she turned the palms of her hands upward,
and the rays which flowed from them seemed reflected by the Sun.”
Aside from appearing to be a “metallic disk” – one
having a strange similarity to a star – there were those who
called it a “magnetic disk.” The engineer Mário
Godinho looked upon the “Sun” through the eyes of a technician
and left us this account published in Stella:
In a radiant sky, the Sun could be looked at straight-on and with
eyes wide open, without blinking, as if we were looking at a disk
of polished glass, illuminated from behind, with a rainbow of iridescence
on its periphery, seeming to have a rotating movement.... And the
Sun did not have the brilliance that hurt our eyes on normal days,
as it was a majestic disk, magnetic, which attracted us and sort
of revolved in the immense sky....
This same witness told Haffert: “It was like a disk of steamed-up
crystal that had been illuminated from behind-a disk of opaque glass.”
Heavenly Lights is certain to become a definitive history of the
Fátima Incident of 1917. When it was first published in Portugal
in 1995, entitled as Aparições de Fátima e o
Fenómeno OVNI, the Jornal de Notícias, a leading Portuguese
newspaper, heralded the work “a literary success without precedent
in the field of Portuguese ufological studies.”
Now the whole world can know the truth about the apparitions of Fátima.
This new translation by American journalists Andrew D. Basiago and
Eva M. Thompson offers a powerful argument for historians, anthropologist,
cosmologist and “ET” researchers and religious scholars
alike to re-examine the actual evidence that at last explains the
enduring mystery of the Fátima incident.
Joaquim Fernandes, Ph.D, 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 Fátima incident,
all based on original documents held in the archives – three
co-authored with Fernandes – and hundreds of articles. Her
research interests include phenomenology, local history, the history
of women, and the era of Portuguese discovery.
Translated and Edited by Andrew D. Basiago and Eva M. Thompson.
Foreword
by Jacques F. Vallée.
www.eccenova.com/Fernandes_dArmada.htm
