Car Alarms: ford explorer 2004, fuel injection system, little circles

Question
My explorer died on me 3 days ago like it was maybe the alternator. Was nt giving me any trouble just dies and so I got a jump start and charged it for about 8 mins and  made it about 10 blocks before all my gages stopped working and the battery light was flashing, I had bout 5 blocks to go and made it home without having to rejump the car. So when I had a friend comem look at it he tried to jump it and clean the post on battery but could not get it even to start. We noticed that the alarm light in the middle lower area of the front wind shield was flashing rapidly which it has never done before and so now my friend is thinking soemthing is goingon with the  alarma and not letting the car start.Is it possible the dying of the vehicle and barely making it home on a low battery caused a lock up in the alrm system or soemthing like that ? And do you have any idea on how I can reset it. The other thing is that the red alarm light that reflects in the window now looks like there are 4 little lights instead of 1 small red light ( small circle ) it now looke like 4 little circles attached togeter in a tail like shape. I thought it may be a  smudge making the light multiply or something but I wiped the window and it still is showing several lights all stucked together, I dont know and I jsut hope you have some insight that might help me get my car started or get us going in the right direction. Thank you very much. Oh and when we try to start it no blinking headlights come on nor does the horn go off or anything, just the dash lights come on but no sound when we try and turn engine over, just the rapid flashing alarm light for about 10 secs and then it goes back to a slow pace but every time we try and start it the light flashes rapidly.  Ok Thank you very much. A

Answer
It's the PATS system.
(FORD'S PASSIVE ANTI THEFT SYSTEM) and it shuts down
the fuel injection system. This can be triggered by the
wrong key inserted in the ignition, or a dammaged
ignition sensor. Either way, you are stuck for a bit.

Please have it towed to your local Ford service dept. for a
PATS reset service.

There is nothing you can no at this point without
the Ford diagnostic.

Sorry about that.

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