Just who was the brilliant entity that appeared to three young children at Fátima in 1917? Was she the Virgin Mary, as the Catholic Church would have us believe, sharing divine secrets with believers? Was she an angel, bringing a message of peace to a world at war? Or was she an alien being, inspiring humanity to look up and contemplate the mystery of the Cosmos? Believers and skeptics have long pondered the identity of Our Lady of Fátima. Now, in a newly published book entitled Fátima Revisited: The Apparition Phenomenon in Ufology, Psychology and Science (Anomalist Books, 2008), an international panel of leading scholars subjects the legendary apparitions to the scrutiny of modern scientific analysis; explores the connections between contact with apparitions, angels, and aliens; and proposes a new paradigm for such unexplained phenomena.

This is the third volume of the acclaimed Fátima Trilogy, which includes the definitive histories of the Fátima case entitled Heavenly Lights (Anomalist Books, 2007) and Celestial Secrets (Anomalist Books, 2007). The Fátima Trilogy grew from an exchange of emails between a Portuguese researcher and an American journalist into a multidisciplinary collaboration involving 35 individuals from 10 countries.

ANDREW D. BASIAGO, who led efforts in the U.S. to bring the trilogy into English, observed: "In The Fátima Trilogy, the Fátima Incident of 1917 is forever redefined, from the most famous religious event of the 20th century to its first major close encounter case." The papers gathered in this volume have appeared in both peer-reviewed journals and original works inspired by the intense and productive process of "brainstorming" about the "visionary" phenomena of Fátima in 1917 that has taken place under the aegis of the Multicultural Apparitions Research International Academic Network (Project MARIAN), which is coordinated by the Center for Transdisciplinary Studies in Consciousness (CTEC) at the University Fernando Pessoa, in Porto, Portugal. This international project seeks to create a forum in which the great mysteries of human existence might be solved.

This groundbreaking anthology was compiled by Portuguese researchers FERNANDOFERNANDES, JOAQUIM FERNANDES and RAUL BERENGUEL, and edited and translate  by American writers ANDREW D. BASIAGO and EVA M. THOMPSON.

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Contributors include anthropologist SCOTT ATRAN, psychologist IRENE BLINSTON, psychotherapist JANET ELIZABETH COLLI, anthropologist RYAN J. COOK, physicist ERIC DAVIS, historian DAVID M. JACOBS, human consciousness pioneer STANLEY KRIPPNER, and astrophysicist JACQUES F. VALLÉE – all from the U.S.; engineer FERNANDO FERNANDES, historian JOAQUIM FERNANDES, psychologist VITOR RODRIGUES, psychiatrist MARIO SIMÕES, and researcher RAUL BERENGUEL – all from Portugal; as well as the British neurophysiologist FRANK McGILLION, the Belgian physicist AUGUSTE MEESSEN, the Brazilian psychotherapist GILDA MOURA, and the Canadian neuroscientist MICHAEL A. PERSINGER.

Fátima Revisited includes essays by WILLIAM J. BIRNES, the host of UFO Hunters on The History Channel, and RALPH STEINER, the award-winning investigative journalist.  Anomalist Books, with offices in Texas and New York, is the world's leading publisher of books on the unknown. Our books are availalble through many online bookstores and can be ordered from most bookstores in the U.S. and the U.K.

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The Apparition Phenomenon in Ufology, Psychology and Science Compiled by FERNANDO FERNANDES, JOAQUIM FERNANDES and RAUL BERENGUEL

Edited and Translated from Portuguese by ANDREW D. BASIAGO and EVA M. THOMPSON

Foreword by WILLIAM J. BIRNES and Introduction by RALPH STEINER

Anomalist Books, ISBN: 1933665238