REVISTA & ESCOLAS DE MISTÉRIOS

  In 1944, President Roosevelt found a note on his pillow bearing a stark message: "Mr. President: The nuclear experiments in Chicago must not continue; all life on this planet is in danger unless what has been started is brought to an end." No member of his family or staff could explain how the note had made its way into his private quarters. Two days later, the leaders of the atomic tests and several of their key colleagues received messages almost identical to the one left on the President’s bed. Security around the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago was immediately tightened, but work pressed on at a breakneck pace until the first atomic bomb was finally produced. Later, news emerged of an unprecedented meeting at the royal palace involving three strange, slender, yellow-skinned beings—barely four feet tall—with large, dark eyes and flat, monotone voices. These entities expressed deep concern over the state of world affairs, particularly the threat of nuclea...