Chapter 8. Soldiers' Stories
The Sinai Desert, the late 1960s…
Sometime around 1968, an engineer from unit 8200 was sitting in a tent somewhere in the Sinai Peninsula, the triangular desert wedged between Israel and Egypt that at the time was part of Israel. His assignment: pick up signals. He had his headset on when he heard something odd and disturbing: a sudden loud and unfamiliar beat. First there were five pulses in a row, equally spaced, then double spaced, and then the frequency rate repeated itself going up and down, becoming stronger and stronger. Troubled, the engineer pulled off his headset and jumped out of his tent. Looking out over the desert toward the horizon he saw a cloud of dust moving toward him. Soon a car emerged out of ...
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