Invisible Boat

- Admiral Figueiredo awaits. He asked for just a minute to complete an important link.
- Funny! I have access to the largest national secrets Brazilian Navy and I can not hear a phone call from General!?!?

The aide smiled at me and says:

- This is a particular connection! He's talking to his wife!
- Ah! So he's right! This is a level of information that my credentials do not allow access!

The adviser smiled again to my observation and he offers me something to drink:

- Want something to drink? We have coffee, soda and water!
- No, thank you! I'm fine!
- Right! So sit back there soon to be called!
- OK! Thank you.

I take the backpack that is on my shoulders and put on a chair. And I notice the site in more detail. The advisor also sits at his desk. I notice a new model of a boat on a counter next door! I can not resist! I get up and I go there again! As I approach I realize that was a boat Stealth* American origin. I have to ask what the reason.

- The Brazilian Navy is acquiring a boat invisible American?
- We already have the boat! It is here in Brazil. The fact was not disclosed to the press, after all ... it is invisible and no one could photograph it!

I smile for the military, obviously believing that it was a joke! In table adviser a phone call happens and he meets:

- Yes, Admiral! Immediately. You can come in now, Fernando! Admiral Figueiredo will meet you!
- Ahh! Thank you!

I move away from the model and will toward the door. I Knock softly, requesting my input when General opens it. This scared me, anyway, I was hoping to even open that port.

- Hello, Fernando! What a pleasure to see you here!
- The pleasure is all mine, sir!

I enter the room of Admiral and he closes the door behind me. I do not sit down because I was not invited to that. Looks like it will be fast and urgent.

- First of all, I want to inform you that the naval general staff like a long time in the last mission! You are very perceptive! You managed to capture perfectly the whole environment in which the action was in! Congratulations!

- That was nothing, sir! The action was not real and I could get very close to everything that happened. If it was real, with real bullets, maybe I could not be this close of the conflict zone and I would have lost some of the vision I had.

- It's interesting what you're saying because now the president wants you right at the front, a real action with real bullets and constant danger of being killed!

- What!?! What do you mean, sir?
- I mean you passed the test of reliability and ability to perform your mission! Now we want to know if you will be able to act professionally in the midst of an actual conflict where his life is at risk.

- Sir! I do not think it is necessary to prove my professionalism! I can operate more safely and objectivity, observing everything from a safe distance...

- No! No, Fernando! Your baptism of fire will be done in the midst of real danger! Only then we will know if you are really ready for a life tenure and a salary far above the national market, after all, his job is extremely reliable.

- Sir! Tell me more about this mission! I want to understand how my life is at risk!
- [Laughs!] Now, my dear Fernando! Don’t worry so much! You will be among the best soldiers of the Brazilian Navy. They will protect you.

The Admiral is directed to your table and it triggers a red button in the right corner. He returns her gaze at me, smiles and says:

- Now we can talk safely. That button creates a noise disturbance that prevents any attempt to spy on us. Your mission will attend a foray into Solimões River* to the triple border between Brazil, Colombia and Peru or will travel in our invisible boat and you will go there. We'll have to get some miles in the territory of Peru, and end up with a group of guerrillas, drug traffickers who are continuously invading our country. They already control the border and also have dominated our region, threatening Brazilian vessels and acting as pirates on site.

- The border police can not fight them?

- They killed most of the soldiers who worked there. The "Phantom Mission", which you will participate, will be to eliminate the resistance at the border, entering Peruvian soil and destroy the headquarters of our enemies. Brazil wants to wipe out the drug trade on this continent. We are spending millions of dollars to the social harm created by drug traffickers. This will be the first of several missions’ elimination of drug producers and traffickers. But we have to do all this without anyone seeing our boat and no one knows of our presence in local shares.

- Sir! I think you're too valuing the boat capacity Stealth! It is only invisible to radar, but in a river hardly go unnoticed to the eyes of the people!

The Admiral smiled at me and said wryly.

- Out boat is invisible domestic technology, Fernando! Young university developed the new concept and it can actually be invisible to the eyes of people.

- Sir! This is not possible! Invisibility is pure fiction!

- That's what I want everyone to continue believing. This is our strategic advantage on the continent. With it we can go where we want, do what is necessary and no one will never know what hit them!

- Excuse me, sir, but I know not any technology that can do this?

- Imagine a situation where you would look for a vehicle and that would be just the landscape that is behind him...!

In their eyes this vehicle would look totally invisible because you're seeing through it! This technology is now available and we did our boat invisible with this concept.

- Are you even serious right?
- Yes..! Sure thing...!
- But how can that be possible?

- Not everything that seems impossible for some people it is really impossible in practice to others! Most people are unaware of the technological level that science has reached! There are military weapons that you can not even imagine! We do not need more soldiers to fight a war on two different fronts! The world has changed a lot, Fernando! And that's why you're here, to document all true hidden history.

- Sir! If this boat is real invisible... and is a competitive advantage... why are you allowing an entire journalistic documentation is produced and published in fifteen years?

- Fernando! If we can make this boat now, other armies and navies also have already achieved or they will have very soon. Within fifteen years all we have here is the past...! Museum...! Oldies...! We must now document all our missions to prevent future accuse us of things that we did! All steps that our new technology will be thoroughly detailed. Although invisible to others, the dome of the Brazilian Navy will know exactly, from minute to minute, where our boat is. With all documented historically, no country can accuse us of having participated actively in the internal problems they will have in the coming years.

- I understand, sir! Where can I find the invisible boat?

Admiral Figueiredo returns to his table and he grabs an envelope, which he hands me.

- Inside this envelope you have a script all you need to do to register your work. It is a standard that determines how we want it done its final report on each mission (I take the envelope, open it and take a quick look in the text). You have carte blanche on my part to do whatever possible and ensure good journalism. Spare no military resources to do so.

- Yes, sir! Thank you!

- A military plane will leave for Manaus in three hours. You will be inside it. Once there you will find someone to take you to where the boat will wait invisible. The location is a secret naval military port in the region (now I keep the envelope in my backpack). Be discreet as always. Do not mention anything about the mission with anyone. It is imperative that everything is confidential. I do not know if you know, but Peru and Colombia are now with some diplomatic problems between themselves and they should not discourage this mission. If they know we invaded their territory, we will create a diplomatic incident!

- Sir! For they themselves do not fight the guerrillas, drug-traffickers in their own countries?

- Both claim that they can’t solve the problem in the vast forest region. But we suspect that the Peruvian Army paid the guerrillas to compromise military operations in the neighboring country along the border! And from what we saw happening at the same side of Colombia. So, officially, the institutions of the two countries are not involved. In practice drug traffickers are dominating the region. In recent years the market has also become attractive for them, because they want to grow and currently only limited to the borders of our neighbors collude. But in our country they are now acting with more violence and we know that many Brazilians lost their lives, their homes and land for this bunch. Live in the lands invaded the "oranges" of trafficking, without passing by the police in any of the three countries. These "scapegoats" take account of the new lands dominated on behalf of trafficking with false documentation. Our border police is not realizing the problem and many of our men are dying in ambush in the woods and also in the River Solimões. We are monitoring the region with our spy-satellite. We know exactly where groups of bandits are hiding and acting. Let's kill them all. You go there and you will witness how we will do it. Nobody will know what happened and not just those with the guerrillas. At the future the children and grandchildren of current residents of the region will thank us for what we did.

- The border police know of our involvement?
- No! And they may not even know! If the commander of the mission to find the way, he has the order to divert them.
- And if we find them in the battle zone and in the crossfire?
- Pray that does not happen, because the news of invisibility can not spread on this continent.

At this time the Admiral takes two steps toward a cooler inside the room and takes a glass of water. I understand, in the words of senior military, we could not help border police, if they engage in a direct fight against traffickers. Even this happening before us. But I hope that the order is not killing our men if they realize what we're doing. I'd hate to be part of that sacrifice military!

- Fernando! I now want you to talk to my publicist out there.
He will take you to the secret center of boat control invisible so you know how to work with this amazing military vehicle.

- I did not, sir! The Navy has a control center here to the boat that is invisible in Manaus?

- Exactly, Fernando! It is here that the boat is guided by the crew wherever you go. Soon you will understand how it all works. After the visit to the base will be taken to the military airport to go to Manaus today and embark on a secret mission.

- All right, sir! Why the rush at the beginning of the mission ghost?

- We found that the guerrillas, drug traffickers will undertake a major operation very soon in Brazilian territory. Let's get all or most of them in our country and the rest of surprise inside the enemy base in Peru. You will have to go through nearly 100 miles of the border between Colombia and Peru before coming to the "den of wolves," which is how we're calling where traffickers are camping and hiding in Peru.

- Well! So I'd better hurry because the schedule is run.

- Yes! It is true! Good luck! Success in your mission more risky. Do a good job! Be fair and professional as always! Do not judge the events, as does most of the national press today. Just report the facts! We do not want to know the opinion of Fernando! We want the professional work of the journalist is you! Brazil's future is at stake, free of drugs, traffickers and cocaine and marijuana farms scattered across South America. We want peace on the borders and we hope our neighbors understand and accept our decision in the future. So we'll invest financially in these countries very soon, targeting the growth of all South American “hermanos” (neighbors).

- Yes, sir! I know the importance of my work for the future of Brazil.
- Very well, then! Good luck, young man!
- I see you, sir!

I leave the room and following the advisor takes me to drive to the secret naval installation located on land in Brasilia. In traffic I'm thinking about it! And it's really hard to believe that there may be a ship invisible. Maybe the general was talking about manipulation with mirrors, an illusion spell or maybe it's a submarine, anyway? Only know the truth when you see it with my own eyes what he claims that no one can!