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

tent's shade, guarded from the fierce sunlight beating down on the rim of the
volcano on Easter Island. Kelly Reynolds's fingers flew over the keys, her eyes
slightly unfocused as her mind worked over the thoughts, fears, and questions
she was trying to translate into the black-and-white of letters on screen so
that readers back in the United States would understand the significance of what
had been discovered here. Her quick trip to the mainland for Johnny's funeral
had disconcerted her, as she saw that the major import of all that had happened
seemed to be mixed up with the search for culprits over the entire Majestic-12
operation and fear over the message the Guardian had sent out into space:
The discovery of the alien computer known as the "guardian" hidden here on
Easter Island at least five thousand

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years ago, has been the most significant and most disappointing discovery in
recorded human history. Significant because it conclusively tells us we are, or
at least were, not alone in the universe. Disappointing because we can no longer
access the wealth of information the computer contains. Like a hacker breaking
into a top-of-the-line computer, we can read the file names but we don't have
the code words needed to open those files and read the advanced secrets they
contain. The guardian shut down less than forty-eight hours after transmitting a
message up into the skies, toward whom or where we do not know.
The secret to the bouncers' drive system lies just a few inches away. The
details of the mothership's interstellar engine lie just as near and just as
far. The technology of the guardian computer is guarded with equal jealousy by
the machine. Control of the foo fighters also rests inside the guardian. The
answer to the mystery of where the Airlia, as the alien race called itself, came
from and exactly why they were here on our planet also lies within.
We know some basics, the barest sketch of what happened five thousand years
ago when the alien commander Aspasia decided to get rid of all trace of his
people's, the Airlia's, presence here on Earth to save the planet from their
mortal enemies, who we now know are called the Kortad. Upon making that

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decision, Aspasia had to fight rebels among his own people who did not wish to
go quietly into the night and in doing so destroyed the land that in Earth
legend we have called Atlantis, where the Airlia colony was home-based. By doing
this he protected the natural development of the human race and for that we owe
him a large debt of gratitude.
But beyond those few facts there are so many unanswered questions:
-What happened to Aspasia and the other Airlia?
-Why was an Airlia atomic weapon left hidden in the depths of the Great
Pyramid of Giza? Indeed, as we now suspect, were the pyramids built as a space
beacon by the Airlia?
-What really happened to Atlantis, site of the Airlia colony? What terrible
weapon did Aspasia use to destroy it?
-And, perhaps most importantly, had fucto whom was the transmission directed
that the guardian made four days ago when it was uncovered? And what did it say?
-And how do we turn the guardian back on?