Red Pill Junkie at The Daily Grail has an interesting speculative piece about the Fatima apparitions following recent news of the possibility of microwave attacks being used against U.S. diplomats:
Microwave attacks and Marian apparitions
September 7, 2018
Microwave attacks and Marian apparitions
September 7, 2018
Quote:So now the investigating team is looking into the work of Allan H. Frey, an American scientist who was experimenting with the biological effects of microwaves in the 1960’s, and discovered that direct beams focused at the human head –specifically, the temporal lobe— could create rather strange effects, including the sensation of hearing noises and indeterminate buzzings (...)
Fernandes and D’Armada were the first non-religious academicians who got access to the original records –kept at the Fátima parish– of the canonical investigation conducted by the Catholic church of the events that occurred in 1917 after the mysterious events at Cova da Iria got a world-wide attention, due to the momentous ‘dance of the Sun’ massive sighting of unexplained atmospheric phenomena, witnessed by thousands of individuals of all walks of life –many atheists who attended the forewarned apparition to mock the ‘credulous peasants’, were reported to go on their knees and frantically confess their sins, at the bewildering sighting of a multi-colored disk which approached the ground in the typical ‘falling leaf’ motion which would become a familiar element in future UFO sightings.
Heavenly Lights stripped away Fátima from all religious connotations, and look at it from a UFOlogical perspective instead (which could be interpreted as another religious connotation, but that’s for another discussion) and the many parallels between Marian apparitions and ‘secular’ close encounters of the third kind –unexplained illuminations, atmospheric phenomena, ‘angel hair’, etc ; they looked at the accounts of the three main protagonists of the Marian apparitions (Lucia dos Santos and her two younger cousins, Jacinta and Francisco Marto) who claimed to be in contact with a small, female non-human entity which was later recognized as the Virgin Mary by ecclesiastical authorities –atheists and skeptics BTW will be surprised to know that, originally, the Church wanted no part in the Fatima story, and it was many years until they decided to ‘appropriate’ Fatima for their purposes; something the authors of Heavenly Lights approached in a sequel, Celestial Secrets.
But getting back to the accounts of the little shepherd visionaries, of the three it was only Lucia (the eldest) the only one who claimed to actually understand the voice of ‘the Lady from Heaven’; the other two told the church authorities to hear her voice, but they didn’t understand most of what it was communicated to them. When news of the apparition got around the little Portuguese own, and more and more people started to gather around Cova da Iria at the appointed time when the Lady promised to return (always on the 13th of the month) none of the other witnesses claimed to see the apparition; what they reported instead, though, was hearing a buzzing like bees…