Looking saucers, flying down the long corridors of history, I found one very dark and winding path. I have already said that the superstition of the past often prevent us to distinguish between such phenomena as the false sun, mirages, polar lights and so on, Because in each of these categories we found and flying saucers, we should not be too harsh to condemn our distant ancestors. We should not accuse them of not understanding the simplest things, though sometimes they gave rein to his imagination, for scarcely their colorful descriptions of swords and armies that appear in heaven, and poured out the blood, severed heads and wings of angels more fantastic than our ideas about flying saucers, as interplanetary craft.

I referred to some weird message about the extraordinary celestial phenomena observed in the XVI-XV centuries and even earlier. In legends and folk tales are often featured fiery spirits, sometimes with a very real basis in the phenomena related to flying saucers. For us, can serve as a known consolation in the fact that not only our, but also other generation were terrified plates.

Before in 1440, the printing press was invented, historical records or passed from mouth to mouth, or carefully recorded from the hand of the chroniclers.

Many of the documents are lost or killed. Some manuscripts do not decrypted, for the translation of the languages of the middle ages is very difficult. Without a dictionary or special guidelines even English of Chaucer us almost incomprehensible. From ancient works survived only some, like "the Natural history" Pliny. Here onua.org we find lots of stories and tales, brought from distant countries and accepted by Pliny on faith. Thus, its natural history is a very peculiar mixture of facts and fables never existed animals, like dragons and unicorns, living together with friends we inhabitants of the fields and forests.

We have already seen that the description of meteors Pliny is not completeness, however, we have all grounds to assume that all of meteorology in General was locked in place at least until the XVI or XVII century.

Looking for the earliest reports of flying saucers, I suddenly remembered a story about the wheels of Ezekiel. Can't these wheels, beyond expectation, to be flying saucers? The Bible very clearly and vividly narrates about many meteorological events such as storm, thunder, lightning and rainbow. What is the wheel of Ezekiel? Simply whether characters, or, perhaps, the images associated with some natural phenomena?

Many events which tells Ezekiel, are in full onua.org according to the known historical facts, and we can even say that he lived about 600 B.C. in his youth, being a priest in Jerusalem, Ezekiel was captured and taken to a small village near Babylon, or Nippur on the Euphrates river. In all that wrote Ezekiel, sounds longing for the city of his youth, for he is forced to live in a country that was essentially a huge desert. It was a vision, and sometimes it was a terrible picture, like a valley filled with bones (37.1-14).

If Ezekiel, speaking about some of the visions, describes the familiar objects and phenomena, or at least what he saw and what we can understand why his first vision cannot be flying saucer?

In Ezekiel there are certain phrases in which it is clearly on some atmospheric phenomena such as rainbows different colors - fire, amber, Topaz (bright glow from orange to white) and, finally, sapphire (blue).

At first I wanted to explain this vision just like a normal night Mirage, but the bright colors talked about the fact that the phenomenon that happened during the day.

The vision of Ezekiel is so consistent with the description of false suns, surrounded by the ghosts that, in my opinion, it is immediately apparent. The line is so high that it is simply impossible not to notice.

About heavenly wheels, appeared to him in the vision of Ezekiel tells us twice: first, in Chapter 1, and then in Chapter 10. Although largely they repeat each other, small differences and additional facts confirm the similarity of these phenomena.

Chapter one

And I saw: and behold, a stormy wind came out of the North, a great cloud and the fire spray, and a brightness was about it,

and from the midst of it as if the light of a flame from the midst of the fire; and from the midst of it was visible likeness of four living creatures,and that was kind of them: their appearance was like a man; and each had four faces, and every one had four wings.

and their feet and legs straight and feet tap them was like the sole of a calf's foot; and they sparkled like burnished brass (and their wings are light).

And the hand of man was under their wings, on the four sides;

and their faces, and wings - all four; their wings touched one another; during the procession of his they turned not as they went, and were each in the direction of his brow.

The likeness of their faces - the face of a man and the face of a lion on the right side at all four; and on the left side - the face of a calf in all four, and the face of an eagle at all four.

And their faces and their wings above were divided, but the two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.

And they went every one party that before his face; wherever the spirit was to go, they went; and during the procession of his turned not as they went.

And the appearance of these animals was as a kind of burning coals, as lamps; fire moving among animals, and the glow from the fire and lightning came out of the fire.

And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of lightning.

And I beheld the living creatures,behold on earth beside these animals one wheel with his four faces.

The appearance of the wheels and the dispensation of them - as a Topaz, and the like they four had one, and their appearance and their dispensation it seemed as if a wheel have been within a wheel.

When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not to turn around.

And their rings, they were high and dreadful were they; rims round about them four were full of eyes.

And when we went animals were and the wheels beside them; and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, then rose and wheels.

Whither the spirit was to go, they went, and they; wherever he went the spirit, and the wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

When they came, and they went; and when those stood, these stood and they are; and when those were lifted up from the earth, then were lifted up beside them and wheels for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

Over the heads creature there was the likeness of a firmament, like the kind of amazing onua.org crystal, rastertogo above their heads.

And under the firmament stretched their wings straight one to the other, and each had two wings covering them, and each of the two wings covered their bodies.

And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of many waters, as the voice of the Almighty, a noise, as the noise of an host; and when they stood,and had let down their wings.

And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads : when they stood, they let down their wings.

And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, in appearance like a stone sapphire; and upon the likeness of the throne was a likeness of a man above upon it.

And I saw how would glowing metal, as the appearance of fire within it round; from the appearance of his loins and above and from the appearance of his loins I saw as it were a fire, and the radiance was around him.

What is the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about.

Chapter ten

And I saw, and behold, in the firmament that was over the heads of the cherubim, as it were a sapphire stone, as if something similar to the throne there appeared over them.

And He said to the man clothed with linen, and said: onua.org go in between the wheels, even under the cherubim, and take full handfuls of burning coals from between the cherubims, and scatter over the city; and he came into my eyes.

The cherubim stood on the right side of the House, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.

And the glory of the Lord went up from the cherub to the threshold of the House, and the House was filled with a cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of Jehovah's glory.

And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when He speaks.

And when He commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, "take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubim", and when he went out, and stood at the wheel,-

then, from between the cherubim one cherub stretched forth his hand to the fire from between the cherubims, and took and gave handfuls clothed with linen. He took, and went out.

And it was the cherubim likeness of a man's hand under their wings.

And I saw: and behold, four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel by one cherub, and the wheels on type - like a beryl stone.

And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel have been within a wheel.

When they went, they went upon their four sides; onua.org during the procession of his turned not as they went, but to the place where was directed to the head, and they went; they March of his turned not as they went.

And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels range were full of eyes all four wheels.

To the wheels SIM, I heard that it was said: Gilgal (vortex).

And each animal four faces: the first face - face heruvimov, the second person - the face of the humansome, the third person - the lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.

The cherubim rose. These were the same animals that I saw by the river Chebar.

And when the cherubim went, then walked beside them and wheels; and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to rise from the earth, the same wheels also turned not been with them.

When they stood, these stood and they, when they were raised, raised, and they, for in them was the spirit of the animal.

And the glory of the Lord departed from off the threshold of the House, and stood over the cherubims.

And raised the cherubims wings and rose before my eyes from the ground; and when they had gone away, and the wheels beside them; and they stood at the entrance to the East gate of the Lord's House, and the glory of the God of Israel onua.org over them above.

These were the same animals that I saw at the foot of the God of Israel by the river Chebar. And I learned that it is cherubim.

Each of them had four faces, and every one four wings; and under their wings the likeness of the hands of man.

And the likeness of their faces, the same faces which I saw by the river Chebar, and their appearances and themselves. Each went straight in the direction that was before him.

To understand this Bible history, let's compare Fig. 18 and 19. In Fig. 18 schematic drawing well-known solar halos with false suns and ghosting - the phenomenon that is called in the sky ice crystals. Fig. 19 is a hypothetical scheme of what is narrated in the Bible.

The similarity of the described phenomena with a sun halo immediately catches the eye. Indeed, various kinds of false suns are determined by the type and size of the ice crystals, their density and the location in space, relative immobility of different layers of air containing these crystals, and, finally, the height of the Sun above the horizon. By its nature this phenomenon can take onua.org different forms: from simple colorless halo or single false sun to a complex pattern, known as "Petersburg phenomenon"because astronomer Lovitz first observed it in Petersburg (nowadays, Leningrad) and described it in 1794.

We will focus on a more simple form, at reduced modification of the so-called "Roman phenomenon", which is mentioned in one of the first messages about false suns and the area around them; in 1630 in Rome, he watched and carefully described the Jesuit priest P. Scheiner.

Two separate vision, according to the book of the prophet Ezekiel, refer to two different phenomena. This determines the differences that can be seen in the description of the events in the sky.

It is not difficult to imagine one of the main features of this phenomenon: "wheel, located in the wheel".

"Four beasts", obviously, were false suns, whose "appearance was like the appearance of burning coals, as lampadas". This instruction also matches the description of false suns. Many of them seem to consist of a myriad of twinkling sparks. This is the "person".

From the description, it is clear that the figure itself was a cross with the center in the Sun. Crosses seemed like the spokes of the wheel; every spoke formed SARS figures, and the false sun was head. All description makes us assume that the phenomenon that happened shortly after sunrise, and, possibly, these columns were painted a rosy light of dawn. They looked as if they were covered with feathers, and we need not stretch their imagination that they thought you ' wings"covering SARS figures. Feet onua.org each figure, leaning on the Sun, seemed to be wider because of his brightness, and this created the impression that "their feet and legs straight feet; and the sole of their feet as the feet of a calf's foot : and they sparkled, "how bright copper". The Sun itself, perhaps even less bright than the false sun, created a ruddy glow.

The biblical text describes the strong wind blowing from the North; indeed it was the storm that filled the sky ice crystals and snowflakes, which caused this phenomenon.

Two halos are some signs of the rainbow with a red stripe on the inside. Other colors are mixed and create the impression amber glow. External rainbow arc remind prostrate curved wings, contact, form a complete circle, as it happens when kids play "cat-and-mouse". Meanwhile warm glow red rainbow stripes seems outstretched hands of a man, too, joined in a circle. Next we read that on the outer ring (rims) were "eye"; we can assume that this means the emergence of secondary false suns that are very rare.

In the comments to the first Chapter, verse twenty-fourth, indicated that the concept of "vote" and "noise" indicated in Hebrew the same word. Indeed, the crash could be caused by the storm. In the Bible thunder often becomes "the voice of the Almighty". During a snow storm of thunder does not happen, but we are not sure that it happened in the winter. If the cold region is very high, similar phenomena can be observed throughout the year.

In ision" describes "the throne, in appearance like a stone sapphire", then there is a sky-blue color. This throne was obviously a curved arch over the outside wheel, which exactly corresponds to the description of the color; of all curves and arches, onua.org occurs when a false suns, only this upper arch largely painted in blue tones.

The wheels are not spinning, and the "up". And with them rose animals. In other words, as the Sun rose, with him higher and higher rose the huge wheels and all details of the picture.

The only strange place throughout the description of stay of the person. Comments indicate that in the original, after the word "Lev" a comma is missing. Obviously, four persons - this is a figment of the imagination: the human face the front of the face of a lion on the right, the person left calf and the face of an eagle invisible, as it turned back. I will not try to interpret something this way and would only say that many experts had drawn attention to the fact that the throne on wheels is very similar to the chariot, and perhaps the very "the chariot of fire", which ascended Elijah the prophet "with a stormy wind to heaven".

The Bible describes and other visions that were actually false suns. Some of them appear in Chapter six of the book of the prophet Isaiah: the Seraphim, six wings instead of four (which is quite likely, for cross beyond all halo, can have a view of the top of the wing), and "burning coals".

In the seventh Chapter of the book of Daniel tells about the four beasts, came from the sea, rising from the Ground up and become on feet as a man. In the vision also mentions the throne and wheels of fire. Because the phenomenon that happened to pocu, you can assume that we are talking not about false suns, and about false moons.

In addition, we find here mention of "the horns", which are very characteristic of many phenomena, especially when they are seen quite clearly.

In most of the comments related to the wheel, which "was at the wheel", expressed the assumption that the rims were planted at the right angle, say as the earth's equator and a Meridian passing through both poles. The consequence of this confusion was one very symptomatic fact: although wheel Ezekiel described very vividly and clearly, there are many Bibles, onua.org illustrated most famous artists, including Dora, I found not one, where would be drawn these wheels. Rafael also wrote the vision of Ezekiel, but in his picture has no wheels, no chariot.

Without the help of meteorology artist, of course, could not understand all of these wheels. But with the help of meteorology all the details of the description immediately fall into place, and whatever religious meaning neither attributed to this vision, his nature to us now clear. And he Ezekiel is a first-class scientist observer, elaborately described important atmospheric phenomenon.