A meticulous synthesis of history, science, and Ufology, "Heavenly Lights" establishes that the famed F tima Incident of 1917 did not involve "Marian apparitions" - as is conventionally believed - but a series of close encounters with alien beings. The first history of the F tima incident to be written by Portuguese historians based on the original documents of the case held in secrecy by the Catholic Church since the time of the apparitions, "Heavenly Lights" subjects all of the pertinent facts of the F tima case to a sweeping evidentiary analysis that is at once thorough and fascinating. When it was fi rst published in Portugal in 1995, the Jornal de Not cias heralded this work as "a literary success without precedent." "Heavenly Lights" is Volume I of the F tima Trilogy.

In 1917, three Portuguese children encountered a radiant woman who told them three secrets about the fate of the Earth. The apparitions of F tima became a legend. In 1978, historians Joaquim Fernandes and Fina d' Armada were given access to the original records of the F tima incident that had been kept at the Sanctuary of F tima since 1917. The celestial secrets they found within held what religion could not admit and what science could not explain. Here, for the first time, they tell the history of the 1941 "cover story" by the Church that has both shaped our modern view of the F tima incident and obscured its true significance as the first major close encounter case of the 20th century. "Celestial Secrets" is Voilume II of The F tima Trilogy.