The Fátima Incident of 1917 was a critical event in the history of the paranormal. Believers and skeptics have long pondered the identity of Our Lady of Fátima, the brilliant entity who appeared above Fátima. Was she the Virgin Mary, 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? Now, in Fátima Revisited, an international panel of top scholars subjects the legendary apparitions of Fátima - widely regarded as a sacred religious event - to the scrutiny of modern scientific analysis; explores the connections between encounters with apparitions, angels, and aliens; and proposes a new paradigm for such unexplained phenomena. This third volume in the acclaimed trilogy, which includes the definitive histories of the Fátima case entitled Heavenly Lights and Celestial Secrets, is the result of a transdisciplinary study by the Multicultural Apparitions Research International Academic Network (Project MARIAN) at the University Fernando Pessoa in Porto, Portugal.
Berenguel, Raul: - Raul Berenguel, M.S. is a research associate of the Center for Transdisciplinary Studies on Consciousness (CTEC) at the University Fernando Pessoa, where he began his investigations in 1971. He has been affiliated with the Center of Astronomical Studies and Unusual Phenomena (CEAFI) and the National Commission of Investigation of UFO Phenomena (CNIFO). He was the founder of the Portuguese Society of Scientific Exploration and is the author of several publications covering diverse borderland science issues.
Fernandes, Fernando: - Fernando Fernandes is a professor at the Superior Institute of Engineering in Porto. He has a Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering and Computing from the University of Porto. He was a co-founder of the Portuguese Society of Scientific Exploration (SPEC), is an associate investigator at CTEC at the University Fernando Pessoa, and is a member of the collective CDU of the Anomaly Foundation in Spain. Prominent among his areas of interest are parapsychology, paranormal experiences and beliefs, and altered states of human consciousness.
Fernandes, Joaquim: - Joaquim Fernandes is a professor of History at the University Fernando Pessoa in Porto, Portugal, where he is a member of the Center for Transdisciplinary Studies on Consciousness (CTEC). He holds a Ph.D. in Contemporary History. His doctoral thesis explored "The Imagined Extraterrestrial in Portugal from the Middle of the 19th Century to the Modern Era." He is the co-editor of CTEC's journal Cons-sciences. His interests are the history of science and the comparative anthropology of secular and religious visionary experiences, emphasizing the Fátima apparitions of 1917, about which he has co-authored three works with Fina d'Armada.
