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

Reynolds waited, sensing the uncertainty in her friend.
"This one panel talks about the coming of the Kortad. And the next panel gives
information about the atomic weapon hidden inside the Great Pyramid. But there's
more than references to just the pyramid and the Kortad. The panel refers to
other places, but I can't understand the geographic code system the Airlia used
for our planet. It's more complex than latitude and longitude."
Nabinger had picked the photo up again and was fingering it. "Oh, I don't
know. It's just so frustrating, uncovering one word after another, not being
exactly sure of the meaning of the word, its tense, its proper syntax. Now I've
uncovered a system I can't crack. When I thought I was dealing with ancient
artifacts and dead cultures I could bear being patient, but this is different."

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"You're still dealing with a dead culture," Reynolds noted.
"What makes you so sure of that?" Nabinger cut in. "One thing that no one
seems too concerned about that concerns me greatly is what happened to the
Airlia? Did they just disappear? Commit mass suicide after secreting away the
mothership, the bouncers, and the guardian computer? Why'd they leave the
guardian on, then?
"And what about the rebels? What happened to them? We know they directed the
building of the Great Pyramid as a space beacon, so maybe they were the
pharaohs. Maybe their descendants still walk the Earth?"
Kelly Reynolds smiled. It had been a favorite topic of speculation around the
press tent. "Maybe we're all descended to some degree from the Airlia," she
said. "We don't exactly know what they looked like other than that they had red
hair and a humanoid form. The statues on this island weren't exactly built to
scale."
"I don't know," Nabinger said. "But what I do know is that whatever the UN's
Alien Oversight Committee decides to do about the guardian and the mothership is
going to affect the course of human history more than anything else that has
ever happened. And I'm not sure I feel much better about these UN people than I
did about Majestic. The big players on the Security Council have loaded the
committee with their people, and they seem to be doing a lot of talking in
secret."
"That's why I'm here," Kelly Reynolds said, tapping her laptop. "To make sure
the truth gets out. Majestic worked in total secrecy; at least here we have some
openness."

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Nabinger snorted. "You've got openness at least until something happens. Then
see how fast this place gets locked down tight."
 "That's the big question," Reynolds said. "What is going to happen next?" She
was looking down at the photos. "I've got a stupid question, but why did the
Airlia bother to write all this high rune stuff down if the guardian computer
has a record of it all? Seems kind of primitive for a race as highly developed
as they were."