Posthuman Blues

New History Reveals the Truth About the Fatima Incident

"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 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 Fátima were not deities from Heaven but rather alien beings visiting our planet 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 case of the 20th century."

Like Vallee, I agree that the events in Fatima constitute a puzzle with distinct ufological overtones. But I find the notion that the Fatima visitations were the work of ETs with holographic projectors too simplistic and "sci-fi"; I think something else was at work -- given the level of strangeness, perhaps a "technology of consciousness" that could dramatically reframe our understanding of who and what we are.

In fact, the more I delve into the UFO/encounter issue, the less and less appealing the "nuts and bolts" extraterrestrial hypothesis becomes. This isn't to say some UFOs aren't ET.; just as the national security state uses the UFO phenomenon as a cover for secret projects, an indigenous nonhuman intelligence could be using the same phenomenon as psychosocial camouflage . . . or is it the other way around?

The "new ufology" -- if there is such a thing -- must learn to dispense with "either/or" thinking. The truth is seldom so convenient, as physicists learned at the dawn of the quantum era.