Imagine: three enormous ships, like spaceships streaking
across the sky, emitting bright laser beams. Their opponents
are small but fast machines that, contrary to logic, can
fly. A minute into the battle, four of the six craft vanish,
and the remnants fall to earth like meteors. The remaining
two race upward. This is not a medieval myth. It is an
incident recorded in the 1980s in Kenya, where hundreds of
witnesses saw spaceships fighting over the Rift Valley.
Official archives call it a "meteor shower," but among folk
chronicles, these events have long become a symbol of
something greater - a war of the gods. Greek mythology
likewise does not depict such relationships between gods and
humans for no reason. It describes their battles as if they
were real. Or recall the biblical Sodom and Gomorrah: two
cities turned to ash by a fiery strike. Lot's wife, unable
to resist temptation, looked back - and turned to stone. Or
Niobe, whose six sons and six daughters were turned to ash
by the arrows of Apollo and Artemis. Homer in the "Iliad"
describes how Athena gives Heracles' daughter the head of
Medusa - she whose gaze turns all living things to stone.
Even Perseus, killing Medusa, uses a shield with a mirrored
surface to reflect her deadly gaze. Similar images appear in
ancient India. The "Mahabharata" tells of a battle where the
Kaurava army is halted by the effect of the "naga" weapon -
as if their legs turned to iron. But the commander used a
certain weapon of his own, "sauparna," and the army was
freed from the shackles on their legs. This resembles how
modern psychotronic technologies can paralyze crowds. The
epic authors describe enormous chariots with tens of
thousands of arrows, not merely as armies, but as something
beyond the human weaponry of that time. Interestingly,
defense against such weapons is also described quite
clearly. Shields covered with hundreds of images of the Moon
resemble mirrors capable of reflecting rays. In the Greek
tradition, such shields exist - they help heroes survive.
This is not just a metaphor. It is an attempt to depict how
ancient people perceived the power of some energy that could
be directed not only by gods but also by mortals possessing
secret knowledge of it. George Lucas in "Star Wars" was
inspired by these myths, and not by chance. If we imagine
that the gods truly descended to earth to punish people for
their sins, then their weapons become a symbol of what we
ourselves can create. Or, perhaps, have already created and
used in Iran? Modern research into paralysis from microwave
radiation confirms: such devices can produce effects
described in ancient myths. Muscles stop responding, while
consciousness remains clear. This is not science fiction. It
is science that says energy, focused in the right direction,
can control the human body. The wars of the gods, like our
wars, continue. But today these battles take place in the
shadow of the UFO phenomenon, which, like ancient guardians,
watches over us. Their energy fields, their beams - these
are the very "lights" that witnesses saw millennia ago.
Perhaps that is why myths are so firmly embedded in the
memory of the people - they reflect not fiction, but
memories of something that happened long ago but could not
be forgotten...

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