"Robert Doherty - Area 51 - The Reply" - читать интересную книгу автора (Doherty Robert)

"NSA AND STAAR, THIS IS DSCC 10. WE'VE GOT A TRANSMISSION."
Brillon grumbled something but he sat down at his computer. "Numbers are
verified," he announced. "Whatever is transmitting is along that line." He
cleared his screen and brought up a computer display of the solar system. "And
I'll bet my paycheck it's coming from a spaceship heading into our solar system
on that trajectory. We've got to contact the university!" he said. "Professor
Klint will beтАФ"
"We can't contact anyone," Compton said. She was speaking from memory, seeing
the pale, blond-haired man in her mind. "This data and this facility are now
both classified and closed by National Security Directive Forty-nine dash
twenty-seven dash alpha."
 "Bullshit," Brillon said, reaching for the phone. He turned to her when he
couldn't get a dial tone. "What did you do?"
"We're sealed off to the outside world except for NSA and STAAR Skywatch," she
said.
Compton turned back to her computer and pulled up Brillon's display. An
electronic green line reached out from the small dot representing Earth. It
speared through space and intersected dead-on with a red circle.
"Goddamn," Compton muttered. She looked up at Brillon. "Besides owing me your
life, you also owe me your paycheck. The message isn't coming from a spaceship.
It's coming from Mars!"

ROBERT DOHERTY

AREA 51

THE REPLY


Prologue



RAPA NUI (Easter Island)



It felt the power come in like a shot of adrenaline. For the first time in
over five thousand years it was able to bring all systems on-line. Immediately
it put into effect the last program it had been loaded with in case of full
power-up.
It reached out and linked with sensors pointed outward from the planet. Then
it began transmitting, back in the direction it had come from over ten millennia
ago, calling out. "Come. Come and get us."
And there were other machines out there and they were listening.

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Chapter 1