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 account stated, a whining sound was noticed and " a bright silvery object ... descended at great speed, " then hovered in midair.

"It appeared to be a large rotating ring ... with the sky visible through the center." ''Ibid. Verse 18—'' "As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four."

This sounds strangely like a description of portholes—perhaps in four rows—by one who had never before encountered such things. One wonders if Jeremiah's advice to "be not dismayed at the signs in the heaven" (10:2) might not have referred to our current aerial phenomena. The same may like wise hold true for the words of Joel: "And I will shew wonders in the heavens..." (2:30).

Few things are more anomalous in the light of present-day knowledge and occurrence than the innumerable biblical references to "flying clouds."

"Who are these," asked Isaiah, "that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?" (60:8).

Nothing, to the author's imagination, could more aptly describe a circular-shaped object in the days before Christ than to say a flying cloud. Isaiah is believed to have lived early in the eighth century, B.C.

A "fiery flying serpent" was mentioned by Isaiah in chapter 14, verse 29.

11 Kings, 2:11, tells us: ".... there appeared a chariot of fire ... and Elijah went up a whirlwind into heaven."

Psalm, 104:3: "Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind."

Revelation, 10:7: "And I saw another mighty angel come from heaven clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire."

Psalm, 68:27: "The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place."

Revelation, 11:12: "And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them ."

Bringing the account of the UFO in world history additionally up to date, no book would be complete without mention