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

this craft could not have crossed interstellar distances, therefore it had to
have been ferried here. The unit I was part of was directed to search down other
leads."
The Russian turned to the map and used a handheld laser pointer. "In 1988 we
received word from KGB sources that someone had discovered something strange,
here in southwest Ethiopia. I accompanied a SpetsnatzтАФSoviet special forcesтАФ
unit," Kostanov added, with a glance at Turcotte's green beret and the colonel's
sand-colored one, "that was sent in to do a reconnaissance."
"And you found?" Duncan prompted.
 "We never made it to our target site. We were attacked by a paramilitary
force. Since we were going in on the sly and did not have air support

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and could not risk an international incident, we were heavily outgunned. Half
the team was killed. The rest of us were lucky to make it back to the coast and
get picked up by our submarine."
"A paramilitary force?" Turcotte spoke for the first time.
"Well armed, well trained, and well led. As good as the Spetsnatz I was with
and more numerous."
"Who were they?" Turcotte asked.
"I don't know. They weren't wearing uniforms with insignia. Most likely
mercenaries."
"Get to the point," Duncan said. "What was at that location?"
"The word we received was that there were some sort of evidence of advanced
weaponry," Kostanov said. "Alien weaponry."
Everyone in the room sat up a little straighter. The question of alien weapons
had been raised many times in the closed chambers of the UN Oversight Committee.
Given that the A-bomb had been partially developed from an Airlia weapon left in
the Great Pyramid, there was a great deal of speculation about what other deadly
devices might be secreted somewhere around the planet. The destruction of the
Majestic-12 bioexperiment facility at Dulce, New Mexico, by a ray from a foo
fighter indicated that there were weapons the Airlia had that many governments
would dearly like to get their hands on. Weapons that the UN would like to get
under positive control before an irresponsible party gained hold of them.
The message Professor Nabinger had received from the guardian about the civil
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Airlia indicated that they'd had a weapon powerful enough to have wiped the
Airlia home base, known in human legend as Atlantis, off the face of the Earth
so effectively that it had become only a myth.
"More specifics," Duncan said.
"I don't have more specifics," Kostanov said. "As I told you, we never made it
to the target. This happened in early 1989, and as you know there was much
turmoil and change in my country that year. We were never able to relaunch
another mission. You now know as much as I do."