Points of interest in 'Light's Hand'

CHAPTER 1: MESSAGES

Two National Security Agency officials visit WWII Marine Code Talker veteran Joe Bear at his home on the Navajo Nation in northeastern Arizona. They ask him to interpret signals the NSA has picked up coming from deep space. The signals are in Morse Code and World War II Marine Corps Navajo Code Talker code.

CHAPTER 10: NEW INTEL

In the Four Corners region of southwestern Colorado, Mike Green, Air Force Captain Amy Mella and CIA analyst Jennifer Thorsen interview Dr. Ben Westman, former Army intelligence major and anthropology professor at Fort Lewis College in Durango about unconventional research topics.

CHAPTER 13: RECON

Air Force Colonel Tom O’Brien, commanding officer of the Joint Reconnaissance Study Group, returns to San Diego from top secret briefings and meetings back east. He contemplates the implications of what he has learned and how these things fit into the mission of his group.

CHAPTER 16: STORY TELLER and CHAPTER 17: THE OLD DAYS

Mike, Amy Mella and Jennifer Thorsen, while in Flagstaff, Arizona, visit a book-signing at a local bookstore by a Cherokee author and story-teller. He tells a story strikingly similar to the vision Mike was given by his grandparents during a near-death experience in Mission Into Light. In that experience, he seemed to go back in time, and into his own ancient DNA of his Cherokee ancestry to a strange incident. Mike, Amy and Jennifer then conduct a field interview with the author to obtain more information.

CHAPTER 18: READY FOR ANYTHING and CHAPTER 19: DEPLOY TO LIGHT

Many developments begin to converge, including increased global appearance of crop circles, detection of undersea fault activity by Navy dolphins and other matters. Members of the Joint Reconnaissance Study Group continue their operations and prepare for a possible significant event to occur as part of, yet distinct from a steady process they have become aware of. Suddenly, in the early morning hours on the north side of Phoenix, a strange light slowly and gently emerges. Public safety personnel and the JRSG members respond to the scene and find that something very significant is occurring ... something that changes the world.