Close Encounters “of the Sacred Kind”

(Oct. 1) — A group of people has a mass sighting of a huge, airborne glowing object that follows them for many miles and even protects them from attack. Someone is seen being lifted into the sky on a beam of light. A man witnesses unexplained circular vehicles with living creatures on board.

Pretty much sounds like your typical, modern-day UFO sightings, right? Wrong. These are vivid accounts of stories from the Old and New Testaments.

“If UFOs are some type of intelligent power from another world, they may have been around for millions of years and may have been involved in the development of the biblical religion, and I do believe that is the case,” said the Rev. Barry Downing, a retired Presbyterian minister.

In his 1968 book, “The Bible and Flying Saucers” (Marlowe), Downing suggests that extraterrestrials in technologically advanced spaceships played a major part in events depicted in the Bible.

“You can go through the Bible and look for signs of things that hover in the sky and seem to be intelligently controlled and interact with the biblical people,” Downing told AOL News.

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