Sneak Peek: A Collection of Unidentified Flying Object Phenomena by Clinton Laird.
This is a collection of reports, stories, evidence and theories about UFOs that will make even the most skeptical stop to reflect. Whether you’re an enthusiast, skeptic, educator or scientist this book brings together information about UFO phenomena in a way that gives you all the most important research in a single place for your review.
We were able to obtain the first few chapters of this book from the author, Clinton Laird. This is amazingly interesting and we wanted to share it with you!
This book tells you what the US Government failed to report about UFOs. It explains where the UFOs come from, what they are doing here, and exposes the United States antigravity (UFO) vehicles. The book gives the history of UFOs along with biblical and modern UFO reports. It gives the locations of the best places to view UFOs, and how the antigravity propulsion system of a UFO works. The author is neither for nor against the belief in UFOs, and merely lays out the details of UFO incidences so that the reader can decide in the validity of the phenomena.
1-3 chapters of the book.
Early History of UFOs.
Early Egyptian and African Myths.
Most of our information regarding early Egyptian creation myths comes from a collection of ancient Egyptian religious texts from the time of the Old Kingdom (2780 – 2250 B.C.E) known as the "Pyramid Texts". They are the oldest known religious texts in the world. Written in the old-style Egyptian, the Pyramid Texts were carved on the walls and sarcophagi of the pyramids at Saqqara during the 5th and 6th Dynasties.
Other important information regarding early Egypt comes from The Turin Papyrus, also called Turin Papyrus of Kings or the Turin Canon. These are hieratic manuscripts of the 19th dynasty (1292–1190 B.C.E.) which lists all the Pharaohs who ruled over Ancient Egypt from earliest times to the reign of Ramses II (1279–13 B.C.E.). Not only does this list include all of the ‘official’ historic Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt, but it also includes the deities or "Gods" who came from above and reigned over the lands of Egypt before the first mortal Pharaoh of Egypt, whose lineage spread over 13,000 years.
The Egyptian High Priest, Manetho (approximately 285–246 B.C.E), who had access to unlimited ancient texts from the Library of Alexandria, wrote for the Pharaoh the history of Ancient Egypt in 30 volumes. Manetho makes reference to the divine beings that ruled during Pre-Pharaonic Egypt.
According to Egyptian mythology, Akhenaten, a Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty, ruled for 17 years and was the father of Tutankhamun. He was said to have descended from the gods who arrived on Earth at the time of Zep Tepi from the neighboring star, Sirius, and established the original Syrian-Egyptian civilization. According to the Pyramid Texts, "Zep Tepi" was a time of emergence from the earthly chaos, and the gods took control and ruled the earth. Many researchers believe that the ancient Egyptian civilization originated in the year 36.900 B.C.E, when gods came from the heavens, and ruled over the land of the Pharaohs.
Ancient Stele make reference to the Egyptian god Horus, suggesting that he was a physical ruler of the Egypt thousands of years ago. Another Egyptian god, Thoth, is said to have reigned over the lands of Egypt from 8670 to 7100 B.C.E.
Mainstream scholars consider these ancient texts as pure myth, and the reason why most details of the texts have been overlooked and omitted from the history books. However, Is there any physical evidence that Aliens, considered as gods from the star Sirius (the "Dog Star" in the constellation Canis Major), ruled Egypt and had offspring with humans?
There is one physical trait that appears in all the members of the Egyptian royals during the Armana epoch (latter half of the Eighteenth Dynasty 1550 BCE to 1292 BCE.). This royalty includes: King Tut (Tutankhamun); his father King Atkenaton; his mother Queen Nefertiti and their six female children; Rameses II and his (suspected) first son Amun-her-Khepeshef; and Tutankhamun’s great-great-great-grandfather, Thutmosis III. All of these people had evidence of elongated skulls. Whether or not this was a genetic trait, or one forced on the royal members at birth is unknown. While the cranium appears extended at the rear, they do not show any evidence of artificial deformation, as with other ancient cultures from China, and Meso- and South America, where it was considered a look of beauty. Perhaps it is relevant that in the 1st Century, Egyptian priest-scribes, then keepers of the world’s oldest known records, claimed that the earliest rulers of Egypt were non-humans.
In Ancient Egypt, Sirius was regarded as the most important star in the sky. In fact, it was astronomically the foundation of the Egyptians’ entire religious system. It was revered as Sothis and was associated with Isis, the mother goddess of Egyptian mythology. Isis is the female aspect of the trinity formed by herself, Osiris and their son Horus.
Ancient Egyptians held Sirius in such a high regard that most of their deities were associated, in some way or another, with the star. Anubis, the dog-headed god of death, had an obvious connection with Sirius, the Dog Star. Toth-Hermes, the god who was the great teacher of humanity, was also connected with Sirius.
The Egyptian calendar system was based on the heliacal rising of Sirius that occurred just before the annual flooding of the Nile during summer. The star’s celestial movement was also observed and revered by ancient Greeks, Sumerians, Babylonians and countless other civilizations, and notably, the Dogon tribe of West Africa, who are discussed later in this chapter.
The star was therefore considered sacred, and its apparition in the sky was accompanied with feasts and celebrations. The Dog Star heralded the coming of the hot and dry days of July and August, hence the popular term "the dog days of summer".
Several occult researchers have claimed that the Great Pyramid of Giza was built in perfect alignment with the stars, especially Sirius. The light from these stars was said to be used in ancient Egyptian ceremonies.
Paracas is a desert peninsula located within the Pisco Province on the south coast of Peru. It is here were Peruvian archaeologist, Julio Tello, made an amazing discovery in 1928 – a massive and elaborate graveyard containing Incan tombs filled with the remains of individuals with the largest elongated skulls found anywhere in the world. These have come to be known as the ‘ Paracas skulls ’. In total, Tello found more than 300 of these elongated skulls, which are believed to be over 3,000 years old.
DNA samples were taken from three of the elongated skulls for DNA testing. The samples consisted of hair and bone powder, which was extracted by drilling deeply into the foramen magnum. This process was used to reduce the risk of contamination. In addition, full protective clothing was worn. The samples were then sent to three separate labs for testing – one in Canada, and two in the United States. The geneticists were only told that the samples came from an ancient mummy, so as not to create any preconceived ideas.
From the samples, only the mitochondrial DNA (DNA from the mother’s side) could be extracted. Out of four hair samples, one of them couldn’t be sequenced. The remaining three hair samples all showed a Haplogroup H2A, a genetic population group which is found most frequently in Eastern Europe around the Caspian Sea, and at a lower frequency in Western Europe. The bone sample from the most elongated skull resulted in Haplogroup T2B, a group who originated in Mesopotamia, now Syria, and known as the original Syrian-Egyptian civilization. The results are also consistent with the fact that many of the Paracas skulls still contain traces of red hair, a color that is not natively found in South America, but originates in the Middle East and Europe.
Permission was obtained from the Peruvian government to do a second round of genetic testing on some of the skulls, working together with archaeologist, Ruben Soto. A total of 18 skulls, approximately 2,000 to 3,000 years old were sent. The DNA results from 12 of these came back from two separate labs, at Canada’s Lakehead University and at UCLA in the U.S.
The DNA from four of the elongated skulls is from Haplogroup B, Native American ancestry, but the other eight were mostly from Haplogroup H, H1A, H2 and U2E. Mitochondrial Haplogroup H is predominantly found in Europe. Subclade H1 are found on the Iberian Peninsula and among the Tuareg Berbers of Libya. U2E is considered a European-specific Subclade of U2, which is an old lineage that emerged from the Caucasus Mountains region more than 50,000 years ago.
The mitochondrial DNA also, showed mutations that were unknown to any man, primate or animal found on planet Earth. The mutations present in the samples of the Paracas skulls suggest that researchers were dealing with a completely new ‘human-like being,’ very different from Homo sapiens, Neanderthals or Denisovans. The DNA testing programs can only compare sample DNA with those that are known, and those are held in a huge database culled from the Human Genome Project (2003), residing at Genentech in the U.S.
The DNA results show that Europe and the Middle East migrated to the Americas long before it is conventionally believed. The results also suggest that there might be a linkage with the elongated skulls of the ancient Egyptian royal family who are claimed to have been non-human, or a hybrid of alien/human breeding.
In the Bible, Genesis 6:1–4 talks about the Nephilim, who, are the offspring of the Fallen Angels and the women of earth, resulting in a hybrid entity, said to be based in the area of the Levant, the same place that the Paracas DNA traces to.
Other physical evidence that Aliens had arrived on Earth from Sirius can be found in Dogon creation mythology. Deeply-rooted traditions of the Dogon people of western Africa speak of the Nommos who visited from a companion star to Sirius. The Nommos are known as advanced beings that have also appeared in numerous related myths found in Sumerian and other Mesopotamian cultures.
Dogon mythology tells that the Nommos, a race of amphibious aliens, visited them on a very large star ship on several occasions. They are said to have "descended from the sky in a vessel accompanied by fire and thunder," and imparted profound knowledge to humans. They tell us the Nommos shared knowledge of Sirius with them and left behind several artifacts. They tell of a companion star in the Sirius star system which has a 50 year elliptical orbit, and is not visible to the naked eye. Modern astronomers did not know the companion star even existed until 1862.
One artifact depicting Sirius carbon dates to 400 years ago, a little over 230 years before astronomers suspected the existence of the companion white dwarf Known as Sirius B. The Dogon say this this star is composed of the heaviest metal in the Universe. The Dogon tribe further describes the existence of a third star in this binary star system, which has not yet been discovered by modern astronomers, and would be referred to as Sirius C. The Dogon say that this third star in the system has an orbiting planet that is the home of the Nommos. Every 50 years, the Dogon people celebrate the cycle of Sirius A and B. These ancient tribes, without the use of telescopes, have crafted artifacts that describe the Sirius star system more than 200 years before modern astronomers discovered Sirius B. Amazingly, the Dogon people also knew of Saturn’s rings, and the many moons of Jupiter.
Sirius, also known as the Dog Star, is found in the constellation _ Canis Majoris (Alpha Canis Majoris), or Canicula. It is the single brightest star in the night sky, having an apparent magnitude of -1.44. In contrast, our Sun star has an apparent magnitude of -26.7. It is a binary star system composed of Sirius A and Sirius B, at a distance of 8.60 light years from Earth. Sirius is not the brightest star because it is more luminous than other visible stars, but because it is located so close to the solar system. It is the fifth closest star system to Earth and contains two of the eight nearest stars to Earth. Mainstream science does not consider the planets orbiting the Sirius star system to be a prime candidate for life.
Carl Sagan, the populist astronomer, concluded that the Dogon could not have acquired their knowledge without contact with an advanced technological civilization. He suggests that that civilization was terrestrial rather than extraterrestrial, however, and that this part of Western Africa has had many visitors from technological societies who passed through on the trade routes.
Although it is unclear, it cannot be dismissed that alien life from the vicinity of Sirius may have had contact with human life. As unreal as it sounds, we cannot dispute that ancient Egyptian and Dogon mythology firmly testify that god-like beings have been involved with humans here on Earth.
Aliens and Religion.
The Bible was written over 2,000 years ago with the King James Version translation into English by the Church of England in 1011 CE. It is a collection of sacred scripture of both Judaism and Christianity. Christian Bibles include the books of the Hebrew Bible, but arranged in a different order: Jewish Scripture ends with the people of Israel restored to Jerusalem and the temple and the Christian arrangement ends with the book of the prophet Malachi. The Jewish Tanakh divides the Hebrew Bible into 24 books, while the same texts are usually arranged as 39 books in Christian Old Testaments. Complete Christian Bibles range from the 66 books of the Protestant Bible to the 81 books in the Ethiopian Orthodox Bible.
The Qur’an (Koran) is the religious text of Islam. All three religions worship the same God, Lord of the universe. The Qur’an assumes familiarity with major narratives recounted in Jewish and Christian scriptures, summarizing some, dwelling at length on others, and, in some cases, presenting alternative accounts and interpretations of events. Muslims believe that the Qur’an was repeatedly revealed from Allah to Muhammad verbally through the angel Jibr_l (Gabriel) over a period of approximately twenty-three years, beginning in 610 CE, when he was forty, and concluding in 632 CE, the year of his death. A lot has happened since the writing of the Qur’an or Bible. We now have automobiles; airplanes, televisions, radios, electricity, light bulbs and we can communicate with cell phones. A person trying to describe these items over 1,000 years ago in the Qur’an or Bible would explain them in terms of things of their known world and experience.
“Heaven” in both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible is mentioned 730 times. It is translated from Hebrew and Greek words that mean “the sky”, or directly related to the sky. This is a different meaning than the Heaven that we often think of as an otherworldly realm in which people who have died continue to exist in an afterlife.
Clouds don’t stop and hover for days, weeks, and months as in the Bible. To a person trying to describe, in Bible times, what we consider today a flying machine would use terms that they are familiar with like flying in a thick cloud. Thick clouds, swift clouds, bright clouds, dark clouds, white clouds, low clouds, great clouds, and fiery clouds are all referenced in the Bible, and quite possibly, all refer to a flying vehicle. The word pillar is translated from "ammuwd" meaning a column or base of column in other words a platform. Therefore, pillar of a cloud would mean a vehicle platform, or sky vehicle. The Hebrew word for "chariot" is "rekeb" of which one of the meanings is millstone, a thick disc-shaped object used in grinding grain. Platforms, vessels, whirling chariots of fire, sky thrones, fiery horses, cherubim, thick darkness, great fire, whirlwinds, fiery wheels, pavilions, dark waters, storms, sky dwellings, rolls, and sanctuaries refer to vehicles in the sky.
There are many reports of UFO in the Bible such as the Star of Bethlehem that guided the Wise men. Exodus tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt. God appears to Moses as a “burning bush” (Exodus 3). Later, during the exodus, Moses and the Jews are led by a “pillar of cloud” by day and a “pillar of fire” by night And while the Bible interprets this as God speaking to Moses leading the Jews, some theorists feel that the Biblical descriptions of fire and clouds are similar to some modern UFO descriptions. The pillars of clouds and fire shows up in subsequent books of the Old Testament as well, including in Exodus 40, Numbers 14:14, Deuteronomy 1:33, and Nehemiah 9:12 and 9:19.
Other descriptions in the Book of Exodus tell of Moses being carried to a mountain in a cloud (24:18), and of God descending in a cloud (34:5), which some interpret as the appearance of an Alien with a UFO. Many other references to clouds behaving in oddly specific manners (such as guiding people, carrying people, arising from the sea, bringing messengers from God, and more) also exist throughout the Old Testament that are very different from how one might observe the patterns of clouds today.
Exodus 13:21 states, "And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night." In all cases, the literal translation from Hebrew for the pillar of cloud and the pillar of fire remains the same. The word for pillar is ammuwd "aw-mood" meaning a solid, cylindrical object. The word for anchor cloud is anan, "aw-nawn", and it means cloud. It has been documented that cigar-shaped UFOs often surround themselves with a cloud. The word for fire is "‘esh", or "aysh", which means flaming, or in this case, a glowing object. This is how it would have been reported today: "The Cigar-Shaped UFO Was a Dark Cloud by Day and a Glowing Object by Night."
Exodus 13:22 says, "He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people."
Exodus 14:19, "And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them.
What is significant about this passage of the Old Testament is that it indicates that the “Angel of God” was operating this mysterious object. This particular angel was given a formal name In the Hebrew text, He was called Malak, ("mal-awk"). This means a messenger specifically sent by God, who was dispatched to protect the Israelites.
Exodus 14:24 "And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the Lord looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians."
Exodus 33:9 "And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the Lord talked with Moses."
Exodus 34:5 "And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord."
Numbers 12:5 "And the Lord came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam and they both came forth."
The Bible and the Koran speak of Moses being born in Egypt, brought up in the pharaonic royal palace, and leading the Israelites in their flight to Canaan. In historical terms, when did Moses live, and who was the "Pharaoh of Oppression"? These questions have bewildered scholars for centuries. An analysis of historical events will show that King Tut’s father Egyptian King Akhenaten and Biblical Moses could be the same person.
While little is known about Moses and the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten background knowledge of both men is helpful to our understanding. Moses is said to have been born about 1400 BCE which closely matches Akhenaten’s birth in 1427 BCE. The Bible was written by man inspired by God. The orthodox evangelicals believe that every word in the Bible is God’s words, and that Moses was Akhenaten’s adoptive son (King Tut’s adoptive brother). Non-religious people would say that Moses never existed at all, and the whole story is a fictitious tale.
Modern scholars believe that the story of the Exodus has some historical core, but the Bible was never intended primarily as a historical document, and contains little that is accurate or reliable. In the following article below, Mr. Ahmed Osman takes the middle view that the Bible tales were given to man through a dream, and like all dreams, might contain inaccurate details, while remaining true to the historical influences. This makes Moses the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten. His Biblical father Amram was pharaoh Amenhotep III, Biblical mother Jochebed was the Egyptian Tiye, and Biblical brother Aaron the Egyptian Crown Prince Thutmosis. Akhenaten’s only brother, Thutmosis, was older and traditionally, heir to the throne. Moses had only one brother Aaron, who was older. The Bible says Moses was raised as a brother to the heir of the throne. Prince Thutmosis served as a priest. The Bibles says that Moses brother Aaron was also a priest. Both Moses and Akhenaten were born in the same region with similar birth dates.
Being sympathetic to the plight of the slave workers, Crown Prince Thutmosis was expelled from the pharaoh’s court and disappeared. Nothing further is known about him, but it is believed that he had been kidnapped and assassinated by the Amun priests. His sarcophagus was never used. Most of what we know about Prince Thutmosis comes from the inscriptions on the limestone sarcophagus of his cat, Ta-miu (she-cat), now on display at the Cairo Museum. Many scholars believe that the Egyptian Crown Prince Thutmosis was, in fact, the biblical Moses.
There is physical evidence that Moses’ brother Aaron is the same person as Akhenaten’s brother Thutmosis. Upon Aaron’s death, his body was buried at Petra in Jordan, according to the Bible. Some believe he was buried atop Aaron’s Mountain (Jabaal Harun) in Petra, but this is only a possible grave site, and is not accepted by many religious scholars. In the early 1800s, two British explorers in Petra discovered an Egyptian staff (walking stick) was found at another possible grave site in a cave at Petra. This grave was empty, but it is believed to have contained the body of a person in very high social standing. The staff was purchased by a British collector, and later acquired by the Birmingham Museum where it is now on display in the Egyptian gallery. The staff had the inscription, written in ancient Egyptian, "Thutmosis a person High in the Pharaohs Court" which could only be Akhenaten’s brother, Thutmosis. If this is the actual grave site of Moses’ brother Aaron, it would prove that Aaron and Thutmosis are one in the same.
The following article comes from "Moses and Akhenaten: The Secret History of Egypt at the Time of the Exodus" by Ahmed Osman, October 1, 2002:
"Akhenaten was born in Year 12 of his father Amenhotep III’s rule, 1394 BCE, in the summer royal palace in the border city of Zarw in northern Sinai. Zarw, modern Kantara East, was the center of the land of Goshen where the Israelites dwelt, and in the same location where Moses was born. Contrary to the biblical account, Moses was born inside the royal palace. His mother Queen Tiye had an elder son, Thutmosis, who died a short time before Akhenaten’s birth. Thutmosis had been educated and trained at the royal residence in Memphis, before he mysteriously disappeared, believed to have been kidnapped and assassinated by the Amun priests. Fearing for his safety, his mother Tiye sent Akhenaten by water to the safekeeping of her father’s Israelite family outside the walls of Zarw, which was the origin of the baby-in-the-bulrushes story.
The reason for the priests’ hostility to the young prince was the fact that Tiye, his mother, was not the legitimate heiress to the throne. She couldn’t therefore be accepted as a consort for the state god Amun. If Tiye’s son acceded to the throne, this would be regarded as forming a new dynasty of non-Amunite kings over Egypt. During his early years, his mother kept Akhenaten away from both royal residences at Memphis and Thebes. He spent his childhood at the border city of Zarw, nursed by the wife of the queen’s younger brother General Aye. Later, Akhenaten was moved to Heliopolis, north of Cairo, to receive his education under the supervision of Anen the priest of Ra, who was the elder brother of Queen Tiye.
Young Akhenaten appeared at the capital city Thebes, for the first time, when he reached the age of sixteen. There he met with Nefertiti, his half sister daughter of Sitamun, for the first time and fell in love with her. Tiye, his mother, encouraged this relationship realizing that his marriage to Nefertiti, the heiress, is the only way he can gain the right to follow his father on the throne.
Following his marriage to Nefertiti, Amenhotep decided to make Akhenaten his co-regent, which upset the priests of Amun. The conflict between Amenhotep and the priests had started sixteen years earlier, as a result of his marriage to Tiye, daughter of Yuya and Tuya. On his accession to the throne as co-regent, Akhenaten took the name of Amenhotep IV. At Thebes, during the early years of his co-regency, Nefertiti was active in supporting her husband and became more prominent than Akhenaten in official occasions, as well as on all monuments.
However, the climate of hostility that surrounded Akhenaten at the time of his birth surfaced again after his appointment as co-regent. The Amun priesthood opposed this appointment, and openly challenged Amenhotep III’s decision.
When the Amun priests objected to his appointment, Akhenaten responded by building temples to his new God, Aten. He built three temples for Aten, one at the back end of the Carnac complex, the other at Luxor near the Nile bank, and the third at Memphis. Akhenaten snubbed the Amun priests by not inviting them to any of the festivities. In the early part of his co-regency, and in his fourth year when he celebrated his sed festival jubilee, he banned all deities but his own God from the occasion. Twelve months later he made a further break with tradition by changing his name to Akhenaten in honor of his new deity. To the resentful Egyptian establishment Aten was seen as a challenger who would replace the powerful state god Amun and not come under his domination. In the tense climate that prevailed, Tiye arranged a compromise by persuading her son to leave Thebes and establish a new capital at Armana.
The situation calmed down, following Akhenaten’s departure, while Amenhotep ruled alone in Thebes. For building his new city at Amarna, Akhenaten chose a land that belonged to no god or goddess. The building started in his Year 4 and ended in Year 8. He and his family moved from Thebes to Amarna in Year 6. Here Akhenaten built his new capital where he and his followers could be free to worship their God. Akhenaten conceived of a single controlling intelligence, above all beings including the gods. The king and queen were the major figures in the cult of Aten, whose festivals they celebrated with the local people with music, chanting, offering of fruits and flowers, and rituals in the open air.
Following the death of his father, Amenhotep III, he organized a great celebration at Amarna in his Year 12, for foreign princes bearing tribute because of his assumption of sole rule.. It was then that the king decided to abolish the worship of all gods in Egypt, except Aten. Akhenaten gave orders to his troops instructing them to close all the temples, confiscate its estates, and sack the priests, leaving only Aten’s temples throughout the country. Units were dispatched to excise the names of the ancient gods wherever they were found written or engraved, a course that can only have created mounting opposition to his already rejected authority. This persecution entailed the closing of the temples, confiscating property, and the dispatch of artisans who entered everywhere to hack out the names of the deities from inscriptions. The excommunication of Amun’s name was supervised by the army. Each time a squad of workmen entered a temple or tomb to destroy the name of Amun, it was supported by a squad of soldiers who came to see that the royal decree was carried out to the fullest.
The military garrison at Amarna had detachments of Sinai Bedouins and foreign auxiliaries, in addition to Egyptian units. The loyalty of the army to Akhenaten was assured by its commander, Aye, his uncle, who held posts among the highest in the military.
The persecution of the old gods, however, proved to be hateful to the majority of Egyptians, including members of the army. Ultimately the harshness of the persecution had a certain reaction upon the soldiers who, themselves, had been raised in the old beliefs. After all, the officers and soldiers themselves believed in the same gods whose images the king ordered them to destroy. They worshipped in the very temples which they were ordered to close. A conflict arose between the king and his army. Akhenaten’s belief in one God, however, was too deep for him to allow any compromise with the priests. Horemheb, Pa-Ramses and Seti, planned a military coup against the king, and ordered their troops from the north and south to move towards Amarna. Aye, who received news of the troops’ movements, brought his chariots to guard Amarna. When the army and chariots came face to face at Amarna’s borders, Aye advised the king to abdicate the throne to his son Tutankhaten, in order to save the dynasty. Akhenaten agreed to abdicate and left Amarna with Pa-Nehesy, the high priest of Aten, and few of his followers to live in exile in area of Sarabit El-Khadem in southern Sinai.
On hearing about Horemheb’s death, Akhenaten decided to leave his exile in Sinai and come back to Egypt, in order to reclaim his throne. Since his abdication, he had been living in exile in southern Sinai, with few of his followers, for about twenty five years, during the reigns of Tutankhamun, Aye, and Horemheb. Here, Akhenaten lived among the Shasu (Midianites Bedouins with whom he formed an alliance.
In his rough Bedouin cloths, Akhenaten arrived at Pa-Ramses’ residence in the border city of Zarw, his birthplace that had been turned into a prison for his followers. General Pa-Ramses, by now an old man, was making arrangements for his coronation, and getting ready to become the first ruler of a new 19th Ramesside dynasty, when he was informed of Akhenaten’s arrival. Akhenaten challenged Pa-Ramses’ right to the throne. The general, taken by surprise, decided to call a meeting of the wise men of Egypt to decide between them. At the gathering Akhenaten produced his scepter of royal power, which he had taken with him to exile, and performed some secret rituals, which only the king had the knowledge of. Once they saw the scepter of royal authority and Akhenaten’s performance of the rituals, the wise men fell down in adoration in front of him, and declared him to be the legitimate king of Egypt. Ramses, however, who was in control of the army, refused to accept the wise men’s verdict and decided to establish his rule by force.
When Akhenaten realized that his life was threatened by Rameses, he escaped from Zarw with some of his followers during the night, and rejoined his Shasu allies in Sinai. However, he refused to accept defeat and decided to carry on challenging Ramses’ right to rule Egypt. Akhenaten gathered his Shasu allies in Sinai, and decided to cross the borders of Egypt into Canaan (a region approximating present-day Israel), where he could establish his rule in foreign parts of the Egyptian empire, in order to prepare an army to allow him to return and challenge Ramses. When Ramses got knowledge of Akhenaten’s plan, he decided to go out at the head of his army and crush the Bedouin power before they crosses the borders to Canaan. Rameses, however, died at this moment and was followed by his son Seti I.
Seti left the body of his father for the priests to mummify, and went out to chase Akhenaten and his Shasu followers in northern Sinai. After setting out on the route between the fortified city of Zarw and Gaza and passing the fortified water stations, pushing along the road in the Negev, the king scattered the Shasu who from time to time gathered in sufficient numbers to meet him. A military confrontation took place in the very first days of Seti I, on the route between Zarw and Gaza in Canaan. Just across the Egyptian border he arrived at the fortified town of Pe-Kanan, (Gaza), and stopped the Shasu entering it.
Ezekiel a priest about the year 600 BCE would be emboldened by the story of Moses and the Tabernacle. Scholars not having lived in the time period do not know all the Bible’s meanings. There is no original manuscript of the Bible. As Hebrew and Greek were the original languages of the Bible, like all languages, some idioms and concepts were not easily translated.
To Ezekiel in referring to the orientation of an object like left, right, front, or back, he most likely would use the Biblical terms that he was most familiar with, such as from the Tabernacle. According to rabbinical tradition about 1,350 BCE Hebrew tribes were driven out of Egypt. They based themselves at Mount Sinai, where Moses received the Ten Commandments. A portable dwelling was built to specifications of God known as the Tabernacle. The twelve Hebrew Tribes were told by God to camp around the Tabernacle holding the banners of their family known as the Camps. To the east there was Judah with the banner of a lion in gold with a bright orange-tinged red color backdrop. To the South there was Reuben with a banner of a man against the background of gold. To the west there was Ephraim with the banner of an ox in black over a backdrop of gold. To the north there was Dan with the banner of an eagle of gold against a Blue backdrop. Thus to the right side referred to a lion, to the back side referred man, to the left side referred to ox, and to the front side referred eagle. These symbols were used similar to how we use the orientation of a ship port side, starboard side, bow, and Stern. Note that this refers to the craft and not the Cardinal Points of a compass (North, East, South or West) or the direction a person is facing. The Bible was written and translated by people that were not familiar with the modern machines of today, including airplanes. The Biblical Prophet, Ezekiel, presumed "Living Creatures" were alive since they could fly through the air and do things only living creatures were capable of doing in his time period. Therefore, "Living Creatures" might be referring to a UFO controlled by a living creature, a pilot. Presuming that he considered that a UFO was alive, he might be describing the undercarriage of a landing system which includes a landing strut (a structural platform that is pivoted on one side) in which he calls a wing, landing gear doors, and bracing. A "face" has many definitions of which one is a "surface".
With all the above in mind, the Bible gives us a good description of what one of these flying vehicles looks like in the Book of Ezekiel where Ezekiel describes four Living Creatures called "Cherubim.
Paraphrasing, this is my interpretation of the Bible’s Ezekiel 1:4 to 1:26:
1:4 And I looked, and, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire enfolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the color of orange-yellow, out of the midst of the fire.
1-5 Also out of the midst thereof came the look of four flying machines. And this was their appearance; the pilots had the look of a man.
1-6 And every flying vehicle had four cowling surfaces, and every vehicle had four landing gears.
1-7 And their end of landing gear legs were straight legs; and the bottom of the foot was like a round footpad: and they glow like the color of polished brass.
1- 8 And the flying machines had struts under their four landing gear on each side; and the flying machines each had the cowling surfaces and their four landing gears.
1-9 Their four landing gears were pulled up; the flying machines did not turn when they flew; the flying machines all flew straight forward.
1-10 As for the look of the surfaces, the four flying machines each the stern side on one surface, and the starboard side on one surface, on the right side: and the four flying machines each had port side on the surface on the left side; the four flying machines each also had the stern side on the surface.
1-11 Thus were the cowlings surfaces: and the flying vehicles four landing gears were extended upward retracted into the flying vehicle; a landing gear of each flying vehicle were joined one to another or adjacent to each other (Note: This would be on the right side under the cowlings with the image of a man and lion), and two landing gears covered the flying vehicles bodies (This would be under the cowling on the left side with an image of an ox and the under the cowling with the image of an eagle.)
1-12 And all the flying vehicles flew straight forward: as directed by the pilot (spirit), the flying vehicles flew; and the flying vehicles did not turn when the flying vehicles flew.
1-13 As for the looks of the flying vehicles, their appearance was dark grey with a bright red aura, and like the appearance of lamps: the red aura went up and down among the flying machines; and the aura was bright, and out of the aura came lightning.
1-14 And the flying machines maneuvered as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
1-15 Now as I observe the flying machines, I observe one flying machine landed by the flying machines, with cowlings in flying position.
1-16 The appearance of the flying machines and their performance was white lacking color: and the four flying machines had one look: and their appearance and performance was as the flying machines were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.
1-17 When the flying machines flew through the air, they flew through the air tilted on their sides: and the flying machines did not turn when they flew through the air.
1-18 As for the flying machines rings, they were so overhead that they were frightful; and their rings were full of portholes which surround the circumference of the four flying machines.
1-19 And in the departure of the flying machines, the flying machines go in formation, and in the flying machines ascend from off the ground, ascended are the flying machines.
1-20 To whatever place the pilot was to go, the flying machines flew, to that place the flying machine pilot was to go; and the wheels ascended alongside everyone: for the pilot of the flying machine was in the flying machines.
1-21 When that flew, this flew; and when that landed, this landed; and when that ascended from the earth, the flying machines ascended alongside everyone: for the pilot of the flying machine was in the flying machines.
1-22 And the look of the dome on the upper surfaces of the flying machines was frightening transparent, extended on over above the flying machines upper surface.
1-23 And under the transparent dome the flying machines inside hinged structural platforms were extended out straight, one toward another; and each flying machine had two hinged structural platforms covering its physical structure.
1-24 And when the flying vehicles flew, I heard the noise of their vehicles, like the noise of a lot of water, as the sound of the all-powerful, the sound of conversation, as the clutter of multitude people: when the flying machines landed, the flying machines let down their landing gear.
1-25 And there was a voice from the second story that was over the vehicles retractable floor upper surfaces, when the flying machines landed, and had let down the landing gear.
1-26 And above the second story that was over the vehicles retractable floor upper surfaces was the look of a pilot’s seat, as the look of a brilliant blue color: and on the look of a pilot’s seat was the look as the form of a man sitting on it.
The fact that the Bible describes the objects as in the sky and how they fly reinforces the physical nature of these vehicles. They descend and land on the ground, they ascend and takeoff from the ground, they hover above the ground, and that they travel swiftly in flight shows that they are aerial vehicles. These flight traits also show that these vehicles are under control while in flight and not actual clouds, whirlwinds, or storms. Since a being speak out of the object it implies that the vehicle is a controlled by a being or pilot. Therefore a person could conclude with a fare degree of certainty that flying machines in the Bible called "Cherubim" are the same thing that we refer to as UFOs today.
The Bible gives many examples of angels appearing in flying vehicles or on solid ground. Using hundreds of verses as evidence, we can determine the following: The Gods and divine beings of the Bible travel in rapidly flying, glowing, flashing, spinning, metallic objects, which appear dark and solid, like low clouds in daylight, while brightly lit, with projected beams of light at night. These objects descend to the ground, ascend into the sky, and hover above the ground for long periods. Sounds are broadcast from them, and they exhibit advanced knowledge that appear to alter the natural laws of science. Humans and other beings are described as ascending up into and descending down from these objects and perception of time is altered. In many of the world’s ancient writings those beings called gods commonly fly in objects with very similar descriptions to those in the Bible.
An angel is “an ethereal being found in many religions, whose duties are to assist and serve God". Angels are the deputies and messengers of God. They are the most physically present of the spiritual beings in the eternal world of the God. They are protectors of the God and mankind. They are not gods. The images that we know today as angels were based on the imagination of painters and sculptors of long ago. They are depicted as having bird-like wings, soft and beautiful features, perfect blonde hair, and lily-white skin, gentle in nature, crowned with a halo, strumming a harp, and standing on a cloud, or flying amongst the clouds. Such descriptions are nowhere to be found in scripture. With centuries of conditioning, the image of what angels "should" look like is firmly ingrained in the human mind. What is important to consider is that the image of angels was determined by artists and the nature of angels was taken from tradition, not scripture.
The Bible refers to flying machines as "Living Creatures" and "Cherubim". Seraphim and Beasts are described in a manner that indicates they may also be devices or machines. The beings flying of these vehicles are God, angels and perhaps modern day men. Does Satan or the devils also fly in these machines? The 12th chapter of Revelation contains the description of a woman giving birth to a child, who Satan attempts to kill. He fails, is engaged in battle by the forces of the Archangel Michael and is defeated, and “cast” to the Earth with his angels. (Revelation 12:7) "And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him." Therefore the Bible tells us that Satan, the Devil and his angles have not been flying around in our modern skies since the birth of Christ. In verse 8, the phrase “neither was their place found any more in heaven" show that this condition is permanent.
For almost 2000 years after the last book of the Bible was written, there were no forms of artificial light. The only lights known were the sun, the moon, stars, fire, lightning, and reflections from those sources. It is not surprising that these sources are what the authors used to describe the illumination appearing from these vehicles and the beings associated with them. In Exodus 13:21 "And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night".
Translates "The Lord ‘Yahweh’ lead the nation of Israel out of Egypt by day in a UFO and by night by a brightly luminous red or orange UFO, for they could travel day and night."
The fact that the authors wrote about the flight routine of these objects is evidence that they have a distinct physical presence. Also, note the fact that UFOs do not appear without The Lord "Yahweh" himself or his ambassadors clearly described as directing these flying objects.
The same characteristics described in the Bible and many other ancient writings are used to describe UFO sightings throughout our history, right up to our modern era. In our skies today, we see the same incredible high tech flying craft, with the same flight characteristics, and the same advanced technology. The only difference is that in the Bible and in other ancient writings they were clearly identified as the flying vehicles that the gods used for transportation. In our modern age they are called “unidentified flying objects”, presumably piloted by aliens. Modern UFOs are the same flying vehicles controlled by the same beings that flew in ancient times. Gods and angels that were associated with the ancient record are the same beings reported in our modern age. Now they are called aliens or extraterrestrials. The difference is in name only.
For thousands of years people, all over the world, have reported direct contact with occupants of high-tech flying objects. Only in recent times has there been any consideration that they are a threat to mankind. Fear that UFOs might enslave the world and steal the Earth’s resources or even worst use people as fuel and eat them. Fears of the unknown not because UFOs have become more aggressive or that they have interfered with the flow of human conduct caused this. UFO abductions are sometimes used to prove evil intent, yet, less than 1% of all reported UFOs involve communication or direct contact with occupants. Only a few of these claim to be an actual abduction or being taken aboard. No one has ever been able to prove conclusively that they were victims of an obtrusive or violent encounter.
Where is Heaven.
To maintain a fleet of UFOs or Cherubim requires many personnel and a base of operations. You need to be able to manufacture the vehicles, mechanics for repair and service, and fuel to operate them. Food is essential for everyone involved in such operations.
If you take the Bible at its word, UFOs (or Cherubim) supplied the food to feed the people of Israel for forty years when they fled from Egypt in the time of Moses. All of this requires a large base, with many people to operate from, but no base can be found. So you have to take the words from God through the reading of the Bible.
A fleet of flying vehicles, described as the army or Hosts of God (Yahweh), appears several times in the Bible. Psalms 68:17 "The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them." Hebrew for chariot is "Merkabah" meaning The Heavenly Throne. The Hebrew dictionary defines Merkabah as "the conception of Yahweh riding upon cherubim."
The Bible describes this personnel in military terms, such as encampment (Gen.32:1-2), command structure (Ps.91:11-12; Matt.13:41; Rev.7:2), and combat (Jdg.5:20; Job 19:12; Rev.12:7). Its specific hierarchy differs slightly from the Hierarchy of Angels as it surrounds more military services, whereas the Hierarchy of angels is a division of angels into non-military services to God. These fleet and personnel claim that they come from heaven but where is heaven? The Bible distinguishes at least three uses of the word "heaven”. The first can be found in Genesis 1:8 and 20, and refers to the atmosphere over the earth in which birds fly. The second, mentioned in Genesis 1:14, is the setting for the celestial lights, later identified (Genesis 1:16) as the sun, moon and stars. And the third heaven is where God is (2 Corinthians 12:1-5). So:
First heaven is the earth’s atmosphere or the air.
Second heaven is in space, the universe.
Third heaven is Paradise and being where God is.
Where is the third heaven or paradise located? Our universe is a rather complicated place, and we don’t know for sure where (or if) heaven is located. The Bible is very explicit that heaven is a real place. It is the place where God dwells in the sense of manifesting himself, appearing to the angels and apparently to those who have died trusting in the Lord and have gone to be with him (our great retirement home in the sky). It is not the same thing as our atmosphere heaven or the outer space heaven. It is once called the “third heaven,” apparently to distinguish it from these other two. So let us look at the possible places of where the third heaven or paradise can be located.
Sky Model.
Basically the idea is that the sky is some kind of a roof over our heads, and that angels come down through holes, either flying down to Earth’s surface, or lowering a ladder or something of that sort. I don’t think there is too much question that people have maintained that view, and it certainly is common today to find theologians saying that’s what the Bible teaches.
Dimensional Model.
To understand this model we have to go into the world of theoretical physicists Stephen Hawking and Edward Witte to examine particle physics, an attempt to reconcile quantum mechanics and general relativity. This is known as the theory of everything, and describes the interaction with one another of fundamental forces or interactive forces and matter in a mathematically complete system.
The fundamental forces are the simplest particles in the universe and the basic building blocks from which all other particles are made. They have no substructure. The four known fundamental interactions, all of which are a force applied to an object by another body that is not in direct contact with it. They are: electromagnetism (the force that causes the interaction between electrically charged particles); strong interaction (the force that binds protons and neutrons together to form the nucleus of an atom); weak interaction (the force that holds the neutron together and causes radioactive beta-decay); and gravitation (the mutual force of attraction between all particles or bodies that have mass).
The atom, long believed to be the smallest building block of matter, consists of even smaller components called protons, neutrons and electrons. Protons and neutrons are themselves made up of even smaller particles called quarks. Quantum theory is the set of rules that describes the interactions of these particles. All these particles, and all of the forms of energy in the universe, could be constructed by hypothetical one-dimensional, infinitely small building-blocks that have only the dimension of length, but not height or width. In theoretical physics, these building blocks are thought to be "1-dimensional slices of a 2-dimensional membrane vibrating in 11-dimensional space". These building blocks are thought to vibrate in multiple dimensions, and depending on how they vibrate they might be seen in 3-dimensional space as matter, light, or the effect of gravity. It is the vibration of the building blocks which determines whether it appears to be matter or energy, and every form of matter or energy is the result of the vibration of these building blocks.
We are familiar with height, width, and length as three dimensional space and time gives a total of four observable dimensions. However, the universe is made up of multiple dimensions. These building blocks of matter supported the possibility of 11 dimensions based on various observations of the fundamental forces or interactive forces, and matter. What does an 11 dimensional universe look like? To us it can look as confusing, chaotic, or nonexistent, etc. This is because we cannot see or even know it is there. An example is your "being" or "soul". For all practical reasoning, and within the rules of accepted science, your soul does not exist. Your logic about your soul’s existence is totally confusing, chaotic, and only points to the fact that your soul or being does not exist, but you reason that this logic is wrong because you do exist. This is an example of just one of these dimensions. The other dimensions, according theoretical physics, support a "multiverse" or many universes, in addition to our known universe. Here, each universe takes the form of a D-brane (Dirichlet membrane), which is the notion that "Strings" can attach and loosen, as String Theory prescribes. Objects in each universe are essentially confined to the D-brane of their universe, but may be able to interact with other universes via gravity, a force which is not restricted to D-branes."
Having multiple dimensions, the universes could quite literally occupy the same space, but because the rules, constants, and variables of nature may be different, we cannot see it or interact with it. Nevertheless, it is there, and it would occupy and make up the same space that we exist in. That could mean that you might be sitting here reading this article, and in this other universe, a motorcycle rider might be driving right through your same space, but you wouldn’t hear or feel a thing!
One of these universes could be the Third Heaven. It is all around us, but has a different set of forces that don’t interact with our known forces, and at least no with any of our sensory apparatus. If a person wanted to go from one universe to another, that person would need to have some sort of switch, some way of turning the interaction between our world and the other on and off, so they can become visible or invisible to us. This "switch" is dimensional, one that we cannot see or even know it is there. To us it may not even exist, except within the limitations of our brain.
Moving in and out of the three-dimensional space makes an object first visible, and then invisible, to beings who are confined in that space. Moving out and then back into the three-dimensional space makes a traveler able, and then unable to see the larger dimensional space outside. This model has invisibility built in. There is always this dimension into which we cannot see, move, or visualize. UFOs, as well as people, have been reported to move in and out of our three-dimensional space. This has not only been reported in the Bible, but by testimony from people throughout history. This model offers a possible way as to how this is achieved.
Another questionable facet of accepted Biblical doctrine is the Holy Spirit as an individual member of a supreme triad. Is the Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost, a being, a spiritual force, or perhaps the vibrations in 11-dimensional space that Dr. Kaku refers to as, "The mind of God".
Deep Space Model.
In this view, heaven is beyond the stars, beyond the galaxies, perhaps beyond the universe, millions or billions of light years away. As man has gone out into space, inching farther into the void, and has not seen any obvious evidence of God, angels, or UFOs. It appears that UFOs or Cherubim obey the laws of nature and are restricted to the maximum speed of light. The nearest solar system to our earth is about 6 light years away. This would mean that it would take a minimum of 12 years to fly round trip to Earth if UFOs or Cherubim could fly at the speed of light, which is unlikely. This way-out model therefore has what we might call a transport problem. From the biblical accounts in general, it appears that the contact between heaven and earth is quite rapid. It doesn’t seem to be something that takes a long time — “today, you will be with me in Paradise.” We could say, “Oh, well, God has no problem with instantaneous transport.
In Albert Einstein’s theory of space and time, the two combine as a single entity called "space-time." We treat space-time as a smooth fabric which is distorted by the presence of energy. What’s happening is simply that the distance between any two points in the Universe is changing according to a particular set of rules in the context of General Relativity. If you were able to reduce the distance between any two points by some force, an object traveling between the two points would appear to be traveling greater than the speed of light The more force you were able to apply to the distance between the two points would decrease to almost nothing.
Using this concept of a nuclear strong force gravity modifier (see Chapter 3), if enough force was applied, a space craft could travel from one point in our Universe to any other point in our universe, instantaneously. This force is produced by creating antimatter in order to release the strong force that holds element 115 together. All this happens on the microscopic level. In other words, at a small distance ahead of the craft in the direction of travel, the distance of travel would be reduced causing the craft to move forward, similar to being sucked by a vacuum. Once the craft moves forward, the process would repeat itself.
There is one type of extraterrestrial being that fits all the criteria of the Biblical angels, and they are the "Nordics". They are named so, because they look like Norse Gods – blonde with brilliant blue eyes, fair complexion, and having the bodies of tall, finely-toned athletes.
The "Greys", on the other hand, are extraterrestrial beings who get a lot of attention when it comes to alien sightings. Their appearance is short of stature, wrinkled gray skin, and having the iconic large black eyes, which is the main feature of their face.
The Nordics are a species that come into contact with humans almost as much as the Greys, but they are more interested in the well-being of the human race and religion than the Greys. Some eyewitness reports claim to have seen Nordics in the same alien craft as Greys. A possible explanation for this is that those Greys were slaves or servants to the Nordics. If the Nordic ETs are in fact the biblical angels, and Heaven is where they come from, then Biblical Heaven is located in Pleiades Star cluster.
Brief UFO History.
UFOs have been seen from Earth as long as there have been people to record them. While there is no written record of prehistoric UFOs, there are plenty of pictographs, petroglyphs, and other forms of art left behind going back as far as 45,000 BCE. In the Hunan Province of China, there are clear depictions in rock carvings of round UFO-like symbols that are thousands of years old. Texts and manuscripts going back more than 3000 years are found in China that tell of “Sons from the sky”, descending to Earth on a star which was in the shape of what we now refer to as a saucer.
In Egypt at The Palace of Pharaoh Thutmosis III around 1500 BCE, manuscripts recorded "Circles of fire [that] hovered over the palace". In 329 BCE Alexander the Great recorded two great silver shields in the sky, spitting fire around the rims, that dived repeatedly at his army as they were attempting a river crossing. The action so panicked his elephants, horses, and men that they had to abandon the river crossing until the following day. In the year 776 CE, as the Saxons were laying siege to Charlemagne’s Sigiburg castle in France, "Flying Shields", reddish in color, appeared in the sky and rained down fire on the attacking army and protected the French.
The first official investigation of a UFO sighting occurred in Japan in the year 1235. During the night while General Yoritsume and his army were encamped, mysterious lights were observed in the heavens. The general ordered a “full-scale scientific investigation” of these strange events. Later in Japan, in 1271, the famous priest Nichiren was about to be beheaded at Tatsunokuchi, Kamakura, when there appeared in the sky an object like a full moon, shiny and bright. The officials panicked and the execution was not carried out.
On Christopher Columbus’ voyage in 1492, while on the deck of the Santa Maria, Columbus and Pedro Gutierrez observed, “a light glimmering at a great distance.” It vanished and reappeared several times during the night, moving up and down, “in sudden and passing gleams.” It was sighted 4 hours before land was sighted, and taken by Columbus as a sign they would soon come to land.
The astronomer Edmond Halley, discoverer of his namesake comet, recalls an experience in 1716 in which he saw an object that hovered for more than two hours. In England, 1882, a number of eminent scientists, including the Greenwich astronomer Dr. E. Walter Maunder, English scientist J. Rand Capron, and noted Dutch astronomers Audemans and Zeeman, along with several others, witnessed a saucer-shaped object during the night.
In Portugal in 1917, an assembled crowd of people, having been told by three little girls that the Virgin Mary would appear on a certain date and at a certain location, witnessed what they described as “the Sun” moving out of its position, coming close to the Earth, wobbling, moving to and fro, and then retreating back to its original position. Known as the “Miracle of Fatima," researchers, religious historians, and the Catholic Church have not been able to adequately explain the events of that day.
The Aurora UFO Crash of 1897.
On April 17, 1897, a UFO crashed on a farm near Aurora, Texas, United States. The incident, similar to the more famous Roswell UFO incident 50 years later, is claimed to have resulted in a fatality of the occupant. The being was “not of this world." The UFO is said to have hit a windmill on the property of Judge J.S. Proctor two days earlier, at around 6 a.m. local (Central) time, which resulted in the crash. The alien did not survive the crash. According to a report by an officer named T.J. Weems of the Army Signal Service, it was a “Martian”. The alien was buried at the nearby Aurora Cemetery with Christian rites” by a traveling pastor named William Russell Taybor. The cemetery contained a Texas Historical Commission marker mentioning the incident, but it has since been removed.
Reportedly, wreckage from the crash site was dumped into a nearby well located under the damaged windmill. Adding to the mystery was the story of Mr. Brawley Oates who purchased Judge Proctor’s property around 1935. Oates cleaned out the debris from the well in order to use it as a water source, but later developed an extremely severe case of arthritis, which he claimed to be the result of contaminated water from the wreckage that had been dumped into the well. As a result, Oates sealed the well with a concrete slab, and placed an outbuilding atop the slab. According to writing on the slab, this was done in 1945.
In December, 2005, the television show UFO Files first aired an episode related to the Aurora incident, titled “Texas’ Roswell." It featured a 1973 investigation led by Bill Case, an aviation writer for the Dallas Times Herald, and Director of the Texas Mutual UFO Network (MUFON).
MUFON uncovered two new eyewitnesses to the crash. Mary Evans, who was 15 at the time, told of how her parents went to the crash site and the discovery of the alien body. Charlie Stephens, who was age 10, told how he saw the airship trailing smoke as it headed north toward Aurora. He wanted to see what happened, but his father made him finish his chores; later, he told how his father went to town the next day and saw wreckage from the crash.
MUFON then investigated the Aurora Cemetery and uncovered a grave marker that appeared to show a flying saucer of some sort, as well as readings from its metal detector. MUFON asked for permission to exhume the site, but the cemetery association declined permission. After the MUFON investigation, the marker mysteriously disappeared from the cemetery and a three-inch pipe was placed into the ground; MUFON’s metal detector no longer picked up metal readings from the grave, thus it was presumed that the metal was removed from the grave.
MUFON’s report eventually stated that the evidence was inconclusive, but did not