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High Strangeness In Fatima Portugal: 1917

 

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ALEX MISTRETTA

The miracle of the sun as the event described above would eventually be known, happened on October 13,1917.  The last day that the “Lady” appeared in Fatima, and had promised a miracle on that very day.  The apparitions began six months earlier on the 13 of May to three local Children.  Lucia dos Santos age 10 and her two cousins Francisco Marto and his sister Jacinta the youngest by two years.  They were tending to their sheep in an area near Fatima called Cova da Iria when Lucia noticed a couple of flashes in the sky.  The weather was promising and there was not a single cloud in the sky, but Lucia cautiously thought that perhaps the weather was turning and that they should head back home. To add to her uneasiness, she recalled a day a couple years earlier when she noticed a lone little cloud in the sky that seemed to take the form of a person.

Back to the present day, Francisco and Jacinta also noticed the flashes in the sky and were ready to head back to Fatima when by an oak tree a lady appeared. Four feet in height, dressed in white with dark black eyes she was illuminated by a very bright light. When she spoke, she told them not to be afraid and that she was from heaven.

Lucia, the leader of the three asked the lady why she was here. She simply told them that she would appear every 13th of every month for the next six months. She told them to pray the rosary daily and that, sadly, they would have to suffer greatly for the sins of the world.  A month later on June 13th she appeared as promised and informed Lucia that she would be taking Jacinta and Francisco to heaven very soon. A prophecy fulfilled two years later when Jacinta and Francisco both died of the Spanish flu; an epidemic that was sweeping Europe at the time.

Having heard about the May apparition, a small number of villagers came to see the lady. They initially saw nothing, but heard a murmur;  voices from far away was the way they described it. When the lady disappeared, a cloud rose up above the oak tree, seen by all and heading east.

By July 13th over three thousand people were now at Cova da Iria, expecting a vision. Again the lady could only be seen by the children, but a strange humming could be heard by all and a large clap like thunder shook the ground.  This was the day the lady gave the children what she called the three secrets.

THE SECRETS
The first was a rather stereotypical vision of hell, with demons, fire and burning souls. A warning of what may befell the world. The second was a plea for Russia to be consecrated to “My Immaculate Heart” .  Otherwise another great war will erupt. She also went on to say that before this happens a great unknown light will be seen in the sky. It will be a sign of upcoming war and that God is about to punish the world for its sins.  A message that she repeated on following visits.

The third secret, Lucia insisted was not to be revealed right away. She also insisted that perhaps it would be best to wait until 1960, for the secret to be better understood across the world. The third secret written down by Lucia in the 1940’s became the most heavily guarded document at the Vatican. Hints were given through out the years, and then subsequently denied.

The hints usually were of an apocalyptic nature, and mentioned a great danger to the faith and to the world.  In any case, the third secret was revealed by the Vatican in 2000. The official statement stated that the third Secret was a warning against persecution of the Church, and quite honestly not much else. A discussion on the veracity of the Vatican’s revelation and the behind the scene intrigue associated with it, is beyond the scope of this article, which after all is about Fatima, Marian apparitions and UFOs.  Which brings us to October 13, 1917;  the day the “Lady” promised a miracle.

MIRACLE OF THE SUN
A scientist from nearby Coimbra University,named Almeida Garret was among the 70,000 people present that day.  He himself never saw the actual apparition, instead witnessed a bluish column of smoke.

This is how he described what happened next:”It was raining hard, and the rain trickled down everyone’s clothes.  Suddenly, the sun shone through the dense cloud which covered it;  everybody looked in its direction.  It looked like a disc, of a very definite contour.  It was not dazzling. I don’t think that it could be compared to a dull silver disk, as someone said later in Fatima. No. It rather possessed a clear, changing brightness, which one could compare to a pearl.  It looked like a polished wheel.

This is not poetry. My eyes have seen it.  This clear shaped disk suddenly began turning.  It rotated with increasing speed.  Suddenly, the crowd began crying with anguish.  The sun, revolving all the time, began falling towards the earth, reddish and bloody, threatening to crush everyone under its fiery weight”.

The correlation between Marian apparitions and “miracles of the sun” is not solely relegated to Fatima; and pattern does emerge. It seemed like a shiny wheel separated from the sun and headed towards earth,… and some sort of shinning balloons began to emerge from the sun… This last statement is not from Fatima, but from Medjugorje, Croatia in 1981, and was another miracle promised by a “lady” claiming to be the mother of God.

BRAZIL
Since 1917, there has been hundreds of Marian apparitions worldwide, with various degrees of eyewitness reliability. Many, involving unusual cloud movement, unusual movement of the sun with strange disks seen before and after an apparition. The messages are also interesting as they often involve warnings of doom, war and destruction. The same messages often given to individuals who claim to have been in contact with aliens.
One of the modern cases reminiscent of Fatima occurred in north eastern Brazil. April of 1994, a luminous figure appears to Jose Ernani dos Santos, who was at the time praying. The figure announces that she would appear again in the first days of September and October.

Word spread quickly and an estimated three thousand arrived on September 1st to witness the apparition and a unnatural darkening of the sun. One witness, who was also a UFO investigator described seeing a cloud in the sky that was emitting multicolored light in all direction, and how the top of the trees were illuminated by the lights.

Another sign was promised for the following month. This time, a crowd of over five thousand believers and a handful of scientists, members of the Brazilian UFO Research Center, came together on October 1st. At around two in the afternoon while Jose Ernani was praying, two large clouds moved rapidly towards the sun, in effect darkening the sun. One of the scientist, Reginaldo de Athayde mentioned that there seem to be a large amount of static electricity in the air.

As people were crying, praying and falling to their knees, a silver disk appeared briefly before the cloud.  By this time Jose Ernani was is a trance, apparently receiving a message from the “holy virgin”.  The disk disappeared briefly only to reappeared  next to the sun. It was described at about the size of the full moon. It disappeared once again and all was silent, until someone shouted “look at the beads of the Virgin’s rosary”  It the sky was four metallic looking discs.  Three were line up in a row, and a fourth was off to the side slightly obscured by a cloud.

Tears of the Virgin somewhat called the disks; others found in hard to differentiate these disks from standard UFOs. This dichotomous view goes way beyond Fatima and Brazil. Arguing about what constitutes a religious event and what constitutes a paranormal/UFO event is missing the point in my opinion. What may be of more importance is that regardless of the event, we are dealing with the same source. Whatever this source may be, it appears to have a very unique way of communicating.  A code that we have yet to decipher.

THIS EPILOGUE IS WRITTEN BY DR. BARRY E. TAFF

An additional side note here is that two of the three children who frequently encountered the apparition died not long after the events ceased.  The cause of death was assumed to be consumption,the result of the Spanish Flu that was sweeping Europe at the time.  However, decades later, their bodies were exhumed and a proper medical autopsy determined the actual cause of their death.  This is where the real high strangeness shows itself.

What killed these two young children was radiation poisoning/sickness.  The only problem here is that other than around Madame Curie in France, who was experimenting with radium, there was NO ionizing radiation on earth at that time that could have killed those children.   Was their frequent close encounters with said aerial apparitions what irradiated them?  You might want to study the Cash-Landrum UFO case from Dayton, Texas in December 1980 for comparison, as both of the adult women were irradiated by the hovering UFO being shepherded by some twenty Chinook helicopters, one of whom later died as a result of radiation sickness due to high neutron & gamma flux exposure and whose medical records mysteriously vanished from the hospital at which she was receiving treatment.

By Dr. Barry Taff

Dr. Barry Taff, who holds a doctorate in psychophysiology with a minor in biomedical engineering, worked as a research associate at UCLAs former parapsychology laboratory from 1969 through 1978. During his 41-year career, Dr. Taff has investigated more than 4,000 cases of ghosts, hauntings, poltergeists, and he has conducted extensive studies in telepathy and precognition which led to the development of the original protocols and methodologies for what was later coined remote-viewing. He is the author of Aliens Above, Ghosts Below.

4 replies on “High Strangeness In Fatima Portugal: 1917”

I just read from a online magazine(eightmartinis) of joseph mcmoneagles remote viewing of Fatima. He describes the event with some astonishing detail after being tasked in a blind situation. this is the link to the online magazine that describes his remote view,http://www.eightmartinis.com/downloads/eight%20martinis%20issue%206.pdf , he does mention radiation is in viewing of Fatima. also, there are reports that indicate that people were wet before the event and after the event they were dry. im not an expert on radiation, but from what ive heard after the tsunami in japan they were struggling to get water to the plant that would evaporate after exposure to the radiation. the point im getting to is you make a claim in this article about the bodies of two children being exhumed and their death found to be caused by radiation sickness. I searched for this on google but cannot find the source of your information on this topic. parapsychology is very delicate, and after making a statement like this we need a source. im just wondering where you got this information in regards to the radiation. I trust remote viewing, which collaborates this notion of radiation, but remote viewing is not 100% accurate and nobody knows where the information is coming from.

The source of the radiation information came from a book that was published long ago, who’s name I cannot recall at the moment. However, I read the book in the late 1980’s and I recall that it was a trade paperback. I will have to check my files regarding the name of said book and reply accordingly. However, just because something is not listed on Google does not mean it doesn’t exist. That’s a double negative. There are many specific related to my own research that were published yet fail to be reference on Google.

thanks for the reply. I do have a bachelors degree and spent a lot of time researching journals so I should have known everything isn’t on google. Still, a reference to this statement would be very much appreciated and I look forward to it. Thanks for a quick response and for all of your work in this field! This particular event about the radiation has a lot of meaning to me. Also, I find it interesting that when I did type in “Fatima radiation” into google I found a couple of articles detailing catholic priest who were in close proximity to the radiation and yet suffered no long term effects from it. Very interesting to me and I am really looking forward to the book you reference in this article. Thank you!
Russ

Just thought I’d provide you with some feedback on my effort to reclaim my old book on this subject matter that was lent to a friend in 1989. Following your comment above, I’ve reached out and attempted to contact my old friend in order to get the book back, but have not been able to get hold of him. We had a falling out in 1990 due to a girl and our friendship’s never been resurrected. In my emails to his Facebook page, I simply asked for either the book returned or to simply tell me the title and author of the book. Thus far, no reply, and I do not believe I will get one as our friendship has been dead for more than two decades. Sorry about this.

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