Ezekiel Visions Alien Revelations Ancient Art of Modern Aircraft

by Josef F. Blumrich

from EarthPortals Website

Groundwork

A native of Steyr, Austria, engineer Blumrich is the holder of patents on numerous inventions.

Until recently the author was master of the Systems Layout Branch at NASA's Marshall Space Flying Center. In before years, he developed the structural blueprint of the Saturn Five booster and participated in the design of Skylab. He has left NASA in society to spend his full time on research apropos extraterrestrial visitors in ancient times.

He wrote the book Da tat sich der Himmel auf (The Spaceships of Eziekel)

References in some holy scripture to foreign machines have prompted, throughout history, speculation and conjecture in guild to lend acceptable, if non rational, explanations of the miracle reported.

Modern technical cognition and exam procedures accept been used to reconstruct a model of what was seen and experienced by ane of the four nifty Jewish prophets two and a one-half millennia ago.

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Any thoughts of visits to our planet by extraterrestrial beings is immediately stopped by the realization that existing scientific knowledge precludes that possibility.

If such visits could be fabricated at all, they would have to originate exterior our solar system, and interstellar journeys would require unimaginable lengths of fourth dimension.

Yet this established knowledge is confronted with the wealth of mankind's myths and legends which merits the verbal opposite, that "gods" came from the skies.

Their appearances were ofttimes accompanied past burn down, smoke and thunderous noise; their influence on homo was, mostly, beneficial. If the source of this information is the ' primitive' peoples' we call information technology a fable; if the origin lies in religious scriptures of the more developed civilizations, nosotros interpret the tales in a more spiritual or even holy fashion.

That this mental attitude is unfair and wrong is manifest in at least ii respects:

it disregards the sincere and honest belief of the peoples who handed down the accounts, and degrades the tales to fictional stories.

At its worst, the data is dismissed as the result of hallucination, the effects of drugs, or plain invention.

But this attitude is also wrong and unfair with regard to man'due south futurity evolution because information technology denies even the possibility of progress in the respective fields of scientific discipline.

Thus we seem to exist at an impasse because of an credible conflict between scientific discipline and legend. Yet the way is non totally blocked: we tin can make progress in this very important field of knowledge once we realize that scientific discipline and engineering are two separate (although not contained) activities, each with its own area of significance.

We must acknowledge the present inability of science to help codify answers to the question of extraterrestrial visitors, while realizing that technology and industrial engineering have not been introduced to the controversy.

The participation of engineers becomes an unconditional requirement in the evaluation of configurations and phenomena implying visits from other worlds. Here information technology is only natural that our fledgling cognition concerning space flight emerges as a contributor of prime number significance.

My interest is angry.

My own involvement in the subject of extraterrestrial visitors began with a vehemently negative mental attitude. Having worked as an aeronautical engineer since 1934-first in the blueprint and analysis of aircraft, and so for the past fifteen years in the design and development of both launching vehicles and spacecraft-I was firmly entrenched in the camp of those who declare visits from outer space to exist an impossibility.

It was in this frame of mind that I began to read Erich von Daniken'south "Chariots of the Gods"?

His claim that the prophet Ezekiel had encounters with spaceships prompted me to read the biblical Volume of Ezekiel advisedly with the intention of proving von Daniken wrong.

By the time I had got to verse seven of the very first chapter, however, I found myself interpreting a description of the landings legs of some kind of flight vehicle:

"Their legs were directly. and the soles of their feet were round; and they sparkled like burnished statuary."

Having designed and tested such structures myself, I could not deny that it was possible to read in this a directly, even so simple, technical clarification.

The contrast of that evidently clear passage with the quite hazy pictures sketched past the residue of the chapter fabricated me realize that the prophet could not have known what it was he had seen, or could not accept understood it.

I realize the necessary consequences of this:

the prophet could only describe his encounters with space vehicles and their crews in the terms available to him-with words and comparisons familiar to him and his contemporaries.

So I began taking Ezekiel seriously, in an engineering science sense.

Because I had to rely on translations, I used six different bibles, ranging in time from early on in the last century to 1972, edited by Jewish, Roman Cosmic, and protestant translators. Besides these, I used two highly detailed biblical commentaries.

My application of aircraft (specifically, helicopter) and spacecraft engineering principles to the reports of the prophet resulted in the penetration of Ezekiel'southward visual descriptions, and the replacement of these by known structural configurations. The final result is shown by the cartoon at the beginning of this paper.

There we see a quasi-conical master body, supported by four helicopter units, which carries the command sheathing atop its rounded upper portion.

Nosotros should consider that Ezekiel first saw this vehicle at a distance of about 1,000 meters; at the moment the nuclear engine fired, probably with some white clouds of condensation (because of the engine's "arctic down" stage) shooting past the craft'due south principal trunk.

In these fiery, dynamic environs Ezekiel notices the moving rotors, encounter the landing legs and mechanical arms attached to the helicopter units. His first reaction is to compare the helicopters with man-like figures, merely he and then finds in the term 'living creatures' an expression of admirable vagueness to reflect his uncertainty.

During final decent and landing, Ezekiel observes the protective covers of the helicopter's gear mechanisms, which he able to depict best past comparing them with homo faces.

He notices the ruddy-hot radiator - glowing coals - (Chapter 1, verse 13)

13. "As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of burn down, and like the advent of lamps: information technology went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the burn down went forth lightning."

roofing part of the lower central body; the prophet is fascinated past the wheels which, in their bones grade, are the only element he recognizes and thus describes in great detail.

The visual clarification of the bike has been misinterpreted in numerous paintings and texts.

Yet no one has always taken seriously the functional description which indicates that the wheels could move, in any direction, without being turned or steered. The latter has led me to develop a precise engineering interpretation, and for which a patent was granted by the Us Patent Role no. 3,789,947, Feb. 5, 1974.

A specially gratifying application of this interpretation, incidentally, would exist to facilitate considerably the mobility of wheelchairs for the physically handicapped.

Prototype, analytical research

Ezekiel ends his technical description with comments on the command capsule and on the commander himself.

The corporeality of detail he includes is phenomenal. It is pregnant that the prophet describes features which are of little engineering importance just which, to the eye, carry the aforementioned weight as true structural elements.

The quasi-conical shape of the spacecraft's primal body-ideally suited to allow its combination with the helicopters, and thus a nigh important feature of the vehicle-is an existing applied science production. Information technology was developed at the Langley Enquiry Center of NASA, and has been studied analytically and in a serial of wind-tunnel tests.

Subsequently establishing the general configuration of the spaceship, I made an analytical investigation; although the configuration appeared to be structurally and functionally sound, its feasibility could be proved merely if weights, dimensions, performance and other bones characteristics turned out to be within reasonable limits.

The analysis was performed parametrically, that ways dimensions, weights and performance were varied in steps over a wide range of possibilities.

From the first crude adding to the final detailed analysis, the results left no doubt of the vehicles feasibility: they reveal a general engineering science of spacecraft construction not far beyond our current, near advanced capabilities.

The only element nosotros are incapable of building is the nuclear reactor within the propulsion organization.

Although this would exist a fission reactor, it would require a specific impulse, of at least 2,000 seconds against the well-nigh 900 seconds of today's nuclear engines.

It is reasonable to assume, even so, that we could take this capability inside a few decades if we were to invest enough effort in its development.

The over-all consequence, and then, is a space vehicle technically viable across doubt and very well designed to suit function and purpose; its technology is in no way fantastic only, even in its extreme aspects, lies nearly within our ain capabilities of today.

The results indicate, moreover, that Ezekiel's spacecraft operated in conjunction with a mother vessel orbiting the earth.

We have no indicate of firm reference for an exact conclusion of the dimensions of the landing arts and crafts, but nosotros can approximate these within the range I investigated analytically. The analogy above shows the shape and proportions.

The bore of the cardinal body would be most xviii m, that of the rotor of a helicopter unit of measurement would be 11 m, total weight from the fourth dimension of lift-off from the earth for the return flight to the mother ship would exist 100,000 kg, the engine'due south specific impulse would be 2,080 seconds, and the craft would acquit two or iii passengers.

With these conclusions, I had to declare defeat; I wrote to Eric von Daniken, explaining that my attempt to refute his theory had resulted in a structural and belittling conformation of a major part of his hypothesis.

Determining the class, dimensions and functional capabilities of what Ezekiel saw makes understandable a number of passages in his text that are otherwise meaningless; information technology also aids considerably in separating the prophetic or visionary parts of Ezekiel'southward book from those concerning encounters with spaceships. (I bars my study to the latter.)

Being an engineer, I am not qualified to investigate the non-engineering portions.

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Ezekiel'southward Bike

from UfoWhipNet Website

A friend passed on a book written past NASA engineer Josef F. Blumrich entitled The Spaceships of Eziekel .

This book concludes that the passage shown above wasn't the whole story. Blumrich agrees that the "wheel within a wheel" was extraterrestrial, but he goes one step farther and claims that it only describes a small part of the craft.

Co-ordinate to Blumrich, the whole chapter was a detailed description of an come across with an UFO.

Ezekiel 1:16 (NIV)
This was the advent and structure of the wheels:

They sparkled like chrysolite, and all four looked alike.

Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a bike.

Fifty-fifty the story behind the book is very interesting.

Blumrich notes that he began researching the topic in response to Erich von Daniken's book Chariots of the Gods .

In the forward to his volume, Blumrich states that he,

"began to read von Daniken with the cavalier attitude of someone who knows beforehand that the conclusions presented can by no ways exist correct."

In other words, he thought von Daniken was total of it and was going to set up out to prove it scientifically.

What he found, after an all-encompassing corporeality of inquiry from an engineering betoken of view, was just the opposite. He went from an extreme skeptic to becoming convinced that the book of Ezekiel was a real accurate and detailed account of an come across with extraterrestrial visitors.

Very interesting coming from a person who is not a religious zealot past any means and is about as far as you can go from a gullible person who might be prone to jump to conclusions.

Blumrich  passage by passage analysis of Ezekiel chapter i that is based his work.

The text shown beneath isn't straight from Blumrich'due south book (which contains much, much more than particular than I could ever present here) but is instead a capsulization of Blumrich's conclusions as presented in some other very interesting book entitled Extraterrestrials in Biblical Prophesy by G. Cope Schellhorn, pages 106-108:

Ezekiel one:4 (NIV)
I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the n--an immense deject with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The eye of the burn looked like glowing metallic

Blumrich summary:
The spacecraft begins at some distance from the prophet in its initial descent. Vapour cloud is from cooling preliminary to firing of rocket engine. Rocket engine is then fired.

Ezekiel ane:5 (NIV)
and in the burn was what looked similar four living creatures. In appearance their form was that of a human being

Blumrich summary:
Looking upward, the prophet sees four shapes surrounded by fire and vapour that look alive. These are helicopter-like bodies deployed before landing.

Ezekiel 1:6 (NIV)
only each of them had 4 faces and four wings.

Blumrich summary:
The prophet is now able to encounter more detail considering the craft is at depression altitude. He sees the four blades of the rotors and the fairing housings in a higher place the rotors that give the appearance of faces.

Ezekiel one:7 (NIV)
Their legs were straight; their anxiety were like those of a calf and gleamed similar burnished bronze.

Blumrich summary:
This is a clarification of the landing legs. The legs have shock absorbers and round footpads.

Ezekiel ane:8 (NIV)
Nether their wings on their four sides they had the hands of a man. All four of them had faces and wings.

Blumrich summary:
This refers to remote-controlled mechanical artillery hanging along side the cylindrical helicopter bodies.

Ezekiel i:nine (NIV)
and their wings touched 1 another. Each ane went straight ahead; they did not plough as they moved.

Blumrich summary:
A reference to the helicopter blades protruding outward is made.

Ezekiel i:10 (NIV)
Their faces looked like this: Each of the four had the face of a human being, and on the right side each had the confront of a lion, and on the left the face of an ox; each besides had the face of an eagle.

Blumrich summary:
The fairing surfaces, which protect the gears and other command devices in a higher place the rotors, look to the prophet similar faces. The fairings are irregular in shape with some raised and some cut out areas, all of which lends itself to an awe-struck interpretation on the prophet's part. Past way of example, Blumrich shows photos of Gemini and Apollo capsules that at sure angles look like monsters. Considering like faces face in like directions, we see that the rotors are synchronized at rest position.

Ezekiel 1:11 (NIV)
Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out upward; each had two wings, one touching the wing of another creature on either side, and ii wings covering its body.

Blumrich summary:
The commencement office refers to the rotor blades being divided. The suggestion is that in that location is a kind of gap in the control mechanism or fairing. The last part of the verse refers to the rotor blades folded in an upwards and down position.

Ezekiel ane:12 (NIV)
Each 1 went straight ahead. Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, without turning every bit they went.

Blumrich summary:
This refers to the landing leg assembly and the retractable wheels every bit part of each leg assembly. Ezekiel doesn't see the wheels until they are really deployed in verse fifteen. Verses nine, twelve and fifteen are interrelated.

Ezekiel 1:thirteen (NIV)
The advent of the living creatures was similar burning coals of burn or like torches. Fire moved back and forth among the creatures; it was bright, and lightning flashed out of information technology.

Blumrich summary:
Ezekiel is referring to the flowing reactor radiator and the bursts from the control rockets. The lightning result comes from what would seem like leaping random fire but in fact is controlled bursts from the diverse control rockets for stabilization purposes.

Ezekiel i:fourteen (NIV)
The creatures sped back and forth similar flashes of lightning.

Blumrich summary:
The spacecraft hovers and moves in diverse directions until a suitable landing site is found.

Ezekiel 1:15 (NIV)
Every bit I looked at the living creatures, I saw a cycle on the footing abreast each animate being with its four faces.

Blumrich summary:
The wheels are deployed. They appear at the very moment they become necessary.

Ezekiel ane:xvi-21 (NIV)
This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like chrysolite, and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made like a cycle intersecting a wheel. As they moved, they would get in any one of the 4 directions the creatures faced; the wheels did not turn about as the creatures went. Their rims were loftier and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all effectually. When the living creatures moved, the wheels beside them moved; and when the living creatures rose from the basis, the wheels also rose. Wherever the spirit would get, they would go, and the wheels would rise forth with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. When the creatures moved, they also moved; when the creatures stood still, they also stood still; and when the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels rose along with them, considering the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

Blumrich summary:
The greenish-blueish color of the wheels suggests a protective motion-picture show or blanket. A further description of advanced reversible wheels is given. Ezekiel is confused - looks to him similar a wheel inside a cycle. These wheels wait similar they are obeying orders. He has had experience with wheels but these are puzzling. Thus he gives much time to their clarification. The arts and crafts rolls on the ground, probably in a maneuver to find the most suitable site.

Ezekiel ane:22 (NIV)
Spread out above the heads of the living creatures was what looked like an surface area, sparkling similar ice, and crawly.

Blumrich summary:
Hither is a description of the main torso of the craft. We get its basic shape, spreading out like a "firmament." The surface of the principal body is metal, shining, brilliant.

Ezekiel 1:23 (NIV)
Under the expanse their wings were stretched out one toward the other, and each had ii wings roofing its body.

Blumrich summary:
Nosotros are given boosted information apropos the position of the helicopter-similar appendages relative to the chief trunk. Rotor blades are at rest.

Ezekiel 1:24-25 (NIV)
When the creatures moved, I heard the sound of their wings, like the roar of rushing waters, similar the voice of the Omnipotent, like the tumult of an army. When they stood still, they lowered their wings. Then there came a vocalism from above the expanse over their heads equally they stood with lowered wings.

Blumrich summary:
Blumrich feels these verses are out of order. They describe operating rotor blade motors and the resultant sound effects.

Ezekiel one:26 (NIV)
Above the surface area over their heads was what looked like a throne of sapphire, and loftier above on the throne was a figure like that of a man.

Blumrich summary:
The prophet sees the command module shaped and colored like a cabachon-cut sapphire. Seated in the pilot's seat is a man.

Ezekiel 1:27 (NIV)
I saw that from what appeared to be his waist up he looked like glowing metal, as if full of fire, and that from there downward he looked like fire; and brilliant low-cal surrounded him.

Blumrich summary:
The prophet describes the low-cal effects of the commander's flight suit which, in Blumrich's opinion, are reminiscent of the light effects caused past the reflecting surfaces of sure insulation materials used in the Apollo lunar module. (Encounter Rev 1:12-xv and Dan 10:half dozen) It might be enlightening hither to mention the calorie-free effects, especially the aureate glow outcome, described past some present-day witnesses to UFO close encounters, people who have been in about proximity to UFO crew members. A classic case of such an upshot would be the Fatima incident earlier in the century. An interesting caption of this effect is offered by an extraterrestrial in Charles Silva'south "Date With The Gods."

Ezekiel 1:28 (NIV)
Like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the radiance around him. This was the advent of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. When I saw it, I fell facedown, and I heard the voice of 1 speaking.

Blumrich summary:
Here are the optical calorie-free effects of the translucent cabachon-shaped command module sitting atop the master trunk of the spacecraft. Sunlight hit the translucent surface and reflecting off other surfaces inside the module causes a rainbow light consequence. (See Enoch 14:9-22 and Rev 4:3) Blumrich emphasizes that the effulgence was "circular about him." Information technology did not emanate from "him." Him, we should advisedly notation, refers to Ezekiel's initial mistake of identity - confusing the spacecraft with God himself.

Blumrich goes on to provide similar observations for the unabridged Book of Ezekiel .

He even concludes that Ezekiel went aboard the craft and interacted with the commander of the vehicle a number of times. If you'd like to explore the topic farther, I'd definitely recommend finding Blumrich's volume and so you can read all his conclusions firsthand.

• So was Ezekiel'south account actually his fashion of telling a detailed story about an encounter with extraterrestrials?

• Were these beings sent by God to deliver a message to Ezekiel?

Interesting but controversial questions.

I'll permit you determine for yourself, but I sure oasis't heard any other explanations of Ezekiel's experiences that audio as realistic to me.

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