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

Kelly Reynolds frowned at that last line. Her finger paused over the delete
key. There were many who felt that no attempt should be made to access the
guardian. Those people were the ones who looked to the skies full of fear of
what the guardian might have called toward the Earth. In

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the last few days since the computer had been uncovered nothing had happened,
but that had not allayed the fears of the Isolationists, as the media were
calling them, but rather left them to stew in what was becoming a cauldron of
paranoia. The United Nations had taken over the entire problem and there were
demands from isolationist groups in many countries to pull out of the UN and not
to support the UNAOC, the United Nations Alien Oversight Committee.
Screw them, Kelly decided. It was more than likely that the message had gone
to no one, since the Airlia outpost on Earth had been abandoned over five
millennia ago. For all anyone knew, the Airlia's home planet, wherever that was,
might have been wiped out by the Kortad, who might have become extinct
themselves, their knowledge of the Earth returning to the ether.
As vocal as the isolationists were, there was another movement just as keen to
gain the new technology and information held by the guardian, and they were
pressing UNAOC to go forward. Dubbed the progressives, they believed the alien
machine held answers for the multitude of complex problems the human race faced.
There was even a very strong argument made by the progressives to fly the
mothership, something that Reynolds and her comrades had raced against time to
stop the Majestic-12 Committee in Area 51 from doing. At least by finding the
guardian, they had discovered the reason the massive mothership shouldn't be
flown: the interstellar drive, once activated, could be detected by the Kortad
and traced back to Earth, which, according to records they'd uncovered, would
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Earth's destruction. That is, if the Kortad still existed, not a likely
possibility in the opinion of the progressives.
Practically everyone on Earth had an opinion about what should be done with
the alien artifacts, but the control of the guardian computer and all the
technology the United States has had kept hidden over the years at Area 51 in
the Nevada desert outside of Nellis Air Force Base had been ceded to the Alien
Oversight Committee, since this issue clearly transcended national boundaries.
The bouncers, nine disk-shaped craft that operated inside of Earth's atmosphere,
and the mothership had finally been opened to public scrutiny and international
inspection after decades of secrecy.
Kelly typed on.
Ultimately it comes down to two key questions, one looking back and the other
forward :
1. What is the truth of Earth's history now that we know an alien outpost was
established on our planet ten thousand years ago and disappeared over five
thousand years ago?