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Close Encounters in the Bible

The majority of sightings represented in the entirety of this work can be classified as close encounters.    Those listed here are more the
 "face to face" or "abduction" variety. 

What is a close encounter?
        For edification here are the categories of close encounters as presented, with some humor, at the 19th Rocky Mountain UFO Conference:

1.    When you see a flying saucer (disc, cigar, spheroid, what have you), that's an encounter (close or far) of the first kind.

2.    When you encounter any type of 3-D physical tracings, or remnants, of something apparently not of this world, or this dimension - such as when someone has etched a sketch in your crops or when your cow is mutilated or when you find a piece of chrome off a flying saucer - that's an encounter of the second kind.

3.    And then when you encounter not only a saucer, or a ship, but you also see the entities who are driving said ship, and they maybe wave at you, and you wave back, that's an encounter of the third kind.

4.    And if you get invited aboard, or taken aboard, and have experiences therein, that's an encounter of the fourth kind. 

5.    And finally, let's say you haven't seen a space craft, or its tracings, nor have you seen the occupants of such a craft, nor have you been aboard, but you would like to, and you're not afraid, and you have learned something about what it takes to initiate contact, so you try it - try to initiate contact - and out of the blue, so to speak, contact does indeed happen, (of any of the previously mentioned first to fourth kinds) this is an encounter of the fifth kind.  

The Big Four Encounters of the Bible

There are four close encounters described in detail in the Bible, several instances of men being transported by or entering into stationary or flying vehicles and many direct encounters with vehicles in the air, conversations from the sky, or beings on the ground.  The four extended encounters require more than a cursory examination and should each be studied in their entirety.  They are briefly outlined below:  

Moses And The Exodus

This encounter starts with a conversation from a glowing vehicle on the ground, follows the high-tech harassment of the reluctant Pharaoh and flight from Egypt, Moses entry into the vehicle, then records the forty year wanderings of the nation of Israel as it is directly led by aerial guidance.  Scores of descriptions and encounters with flying vehicles, advanced technology, and space age weaponry are recorded during this journey.  The Exodus section of this site covers the individual instances but a complete read of the book is worthwhile.  

 Ezekiel's Whirlwind

The first and tenth chapters of Ezekiel and other verses describe at least two separate encounters with the vehicle as well as face-to-face encounters with beings and divine abductions.  The close nature of these encounters provides the most thorough description of the physical devices, brilliance, and material composition of the flying craft of Jehovah.  

The Transfiguration

The incident commonly called the Transfiguration is an account of an encounter Jesus and three apostles have with bright hovering craft and two "men" from that craft.  Transfiguration refers to change of the appearance of Jesus the apostle’s witness as he is having this encounter.  The question almost never asked is what caused this change?  If one examines the entire incident a rather familiar scenario develops.  Jesus is up on a mountain just before his crucifixion and late at night the apostles are awakened fro a deep sleep.  There is a bright object overhead and suddenly Jesus turns a radiant white.  Two men appear out of the object and talk to Jesus about his pending death.  These men then are taken back up into the object and a voice is broadcast from the object.

The answer to what cased the change in appearance is a light beam from that glowing object, the beam that transported the two men to and from the ground.  The same light, "brighter than the sun", that Paul speaks of in Acts 22.  The same effect one sees when a helicopter shines its search light on the ground, everything turns white.  And the same effect one sees in pictures and movies of encounters with UFOs. This encounter is described by each of the three Gospel authors, Matthew 17:1-8; Mark 9:2-8; Luke 9:28-36. Forty years after the event Peter recalls it, 2 Peter 1:16-18.  The place of the transfiguration was probably Mount Hermon and not Mount Tabor, as is commonly thought. 

The Revelations Of John

From the beginning to the end the vision of the future given to John is a high-tech, high-flying scenario.  It is his testimony of the end times from the perspective that Jesus shows him complete with a description of the inside of the command vessel.  John has a front row seat during the conquest of Earth and the armies of mankind that Satan has amassed to fight the Second Coming.