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Ezekiel and the Ancient Spacemen: Extreme UFOs in the Bible Originally published in March, 1961, in Analog Science Fact & Fiction. Ezekiel and the Ancient Spacemen: Extreme UFOs in the Bible The Original 1961 Analysis "A methodical and ingenious argument that Ezekiel 1 'is the account of an actual happening; the landing of extraterrestrial brings, reported by a careful, truthful and self-possessed observer.'" -David Joel Halperin, The Faces of the Chariot: Early Jewish Responses to Ezekiel's Vision "We are told from our Sunday School days that the Bible is a "living book," the oldest of man's written works that is read and used anew, from generation to generation. It remains "living" because we are able to find new meaning to fit our daily lives. Although it is not the usual kind of new meaning, I believe that I have found something of the sort in the very old prophesies of Ezekiel. "Bible scholars have long recognized the first chapter of Ezekiel as a strange and nearly unfathomable account of a vision. I suggest that it is strange only because it is written by a man far removed from us in time and experience, about a subject totally unfamiliar to men of his time. I do not think that this was a vision in the usual sense, nor was it meant to be mystical. This particular chapter has been called "Science fiction in the Bible" and many attempts have been made to unravel the meaning of the original author, along both spiritual and mundane lines. I am convinced that this chapter is the account of an actual happening; the landing of extraterrestial beings, reported by a careful, truthful and self-possessed observer. "I am not a student of theology and therefore you may feel that I am being presumptive in attempting to throw light on a mystery as old and well-studied as Ezekiel's first chapter. I feel that any success that I may have in doing so will be due to the accident of my birth at the very beginning of an era when the events I h