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

but there was an undercurrent to her words.
"If I was, would I know it?" Nabinger said. "General Gullick and the others on
Majestic thought they were acting for the good of the country. According to the
MRI scans of my brain nothing seems amiss."
"You said there's word others have artifacts?" Kelly asked. "How come they're
not coming forward now that everything's in the open?"
"They, whoever they are, lose control if they do that. Think of the economic
potential if someone cracks the secret to some of the Airlia technology. UNAOC
is trying, but it's not getting the greatest cooperation. I think the Navy is
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the foo fighter base because after what the fighters did to the lab at Dulce,
anyone who controlled that power would be top dog on this planet. Also, the
isolationists are pretty strong in some countries and they feel UNAOC leans too
far toward the progressives."
Reynolds shook her head, but she knew that was the way people were,
particularly people in power. "So what have you been doing when the oversight
people haven't been trying to use you to turn on the guardian?"
Nabinger held up a file folder stuffed with pictures and computer printouts.
"I still have the high runes as a source of information. Getting access into the
guardian would certainly be nice, but, remember, I'm an archaeologist." He
paused, then looked at her. "I think everyone is too worried about the future
and not enough about the past."
"That's because we're going to live the future," Reynolds noted.
"But you can't understand the present if you don't understand the past,"
Nabinger argued.
Reynolds frowned. "I thought we had a pretty good lock on the past from what
you learned when you accessed the guardian. Aspasia and the rebels and the
Kortad and all that."
Nabinger slapped a photo on the cot between them, pinning it down with a
coffee mug. "That's an underwater shot off Bimini, where Atlantis, or Airlia
Base Camp if you want the unromantic term the Oversight Committee has adopted,
was located. I was interested in it because that must have been where the
Germans got their information about the bomb in the Great Pyramid.

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 "The runes had been damaged, but I've had one of the UN's computer experts
reconstruct and digitally enhance it. I've got enough to work on a partial
translation now."
"And?" Reynolds asked. "What's it tell you?"
"It makes mention of the Great Pyramid. And there may have been a drawing that
showed the lower chamber where the bomb was hidden. But it also makes mention of
the Kortad," Nabinger said.
"I take it that it's not good news?" Reynolds asked.
Nabinger frowned. "It's kind of funny. The more I study the high runes the
more I think I understand the language and the syntax, but some things just
don't make sense."