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

features. Kelly had talked to her briefly at the funeral.
Kelly knew who she was referring to. "Yes. The ones who worked on Johnny in
the lab in Dulce were killed when the Easter Island guardian de-

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stroyed it. The other members of Majestic are all being held for trial."
Mrs. Simmons was focused on the coffin. "They did things to him, didn't they?
He wouldn't have killed himself. I knew he wouldn't have done that."
"No, Johnny wouldn't have killed himself," Kelly agreed. "They did really bad
things to his mind. Johnny loved life too much. They hurt him so much, he
couldn't remember that. He couldn't think straight."
Mrs. Simmons's gaze went past the coffin. "The news is making him into some
kind of hero. They say he was the beginning of what brought what was going on in
Area 51 into the open."
"He was a hero," Kelly agreed.
Mrs. Simmons reached out and her hand clutched Kelly's shoulder. "Was it worth
it?"
"Yes." There was no hesitation in Kelly's voice. "Johnny dedicated his life to
finding out the truth, and what he helped uncover is the greatest truth of our
time. It was worth it."
"But is it a good truth?" Mrs. Simmons asked. "All these alien things they've
uncovered; that message everyone is talking aboutтАФwill everything turn out all
right?"
Kelly looked at the casket once more. "Yes." Then she whispered to herself.
"It has to."

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Chapter 2


Deep Space Communication Center (DSCC) 10 was one of two dozen radio receiving
systems placed around the globe by the United States government in conjunction
with various research organizations to monitor radio waves coming in to the
planet from outside the atmosphere. At DSCC-10 twelve large dishes were spaced
evenly across the desert floor, 250 miles northeast of Las Vegas. The setting
sun reflected off the metal struts and webs of steel that pointed to the sky,
listening with the infinite patience that machines are capable of.
Cables ran from the base of each dish into the side of a large modern, one-
story building. Inside the structure the two humans also had patience, that born
of years of listening to the cosmos with no tangible results.
The recent discoveries on Easter Island and the disclosure of the alien
mothership and bouncers secreted away just miles to the north in Area 51 had
proven beyond the slightest doubt that there

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