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The Bible’s explainer on UFOs
foxnews.com ^ | Lt. Col. Robert Maginnis, U.S. Army (ret.)

Posted on 08/06/2023 3:12:24 PM PDT by RoosterRedux

Washington is getting serious about reports of [UFO's], what the Pentagon now labels as unidentified aerial phenomena or UAPs. There is a long history of such sightings and the increase in such observations could be a sign of things to come.

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Following that hearing a group of lawmakers asked the House speaker to form a committee to investigate government programs involving UAPs. Specifically, they requested "subpoena authority" to collect information [...] What are we to make of this news? Well, there are many reports of strange objects in the sky dating from ancient times.

Historian Josephus wrote of a mysterious spectacle that occurred over Israel in A.D. 70. "Chariots and troops of soldiers in their armour were seen running about among the clouds," wrote Josephus. There were numerous such events around the entire country as "armed battalions hurtling through the clouds" and with "great noise" causing "quakes." There are many other recorded events of unexplained UAPS over the past millennia.

More recently in America after World War II, the number of UFO sightings spiked, and as a result our government formed a number of task forces to investigate. Perhaps the best-known incident occurred in 1947 when Roswell Army Air Field personnel recovered debris from a "flying disc." However, in 1994 a U.S. Air Force report concluded the debris was from a top-secret nuclear test surveillance balloon.

UFOs/UAPs have long fascinated humanity. Unfortunately, we don’t understand such events.

I don’t dismiss the possibility we are being visited by aliens. Further, I’m quite aware there are things my five senses (sight, smell, touch, taste and hearing) can’t understand, and they may be real like radio waves. For example, I believe there is a very real spiritual domain beyond our senses. You can call them aliens, angels, demons or other.

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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

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81 posted on 08/07/2023 4:55:39 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: maddog55
👽 Stop sending me little green men! < sarc, of course >

They remind me of Robert Habeck and Annalena Baerbock.... And Jennifer Granholm and the half-white Barack Soetero. Aliens, without a doubt.

82 posted on 08/07/2023 5:22:10 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Saintgermain

less afraid of the so called fallen angles and nephilians than of the crooked and destructive swamp creatures occupying the cesspool in the District of Corruption. If those aliens wanted to harm us

/\

Just who do you think convinced them the earf must be depopulated ?

And all borders eliminated

And climate change will destroy muver erf..?


83 posted on 08/07/2023 5:33:57 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: Saintgermain

Perhaps they are raising us like chickens. Or perhaps they want to use us for some purpose that doesn’t involve destroying us (per se).


84 posted on 08/07/2023 5:48:21 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Sirius Lee

Here are some first-hand accounts of alien contact—believe them or not as you choose:

https://podbay.fm/p/aliens-and-artists


85 posted on 08/07/2023 6:18:36 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: maddog55

“We send craft to other planets? Really? Perhaps you can fill me in on this, please.”

Done:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t564HRXeS6o


86 posted on 08/07/2023 6:20:16 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: cgbg

I don’t click links.


87 posted on 08/07/2023 6:23:46 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Sirius Lee

These are real folks telling their life stories—they are podcasts—fascinating stuff.

Btw there are no advertisements on the site—it is just podcasts.


88 posted on 08/07/2023 6:29:37 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Yep, I have read about Bledsoe too! Thank you!


89 posted on 08/07/2023 6:34:48 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Openurmind
Then you probably know he entitled his book on the subject UFO of God.

I've read it.

He may not realize it, but he is dabbling heavily in the occult.

90 posted on 08/07/2023 6:54:04 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

“I use a distinction between “belief” and “knowledge” as less-supported and more-supported propositions along a spectrum of human thought. And so we use words differently. I have no “belief” in science, because it for me demands no “belief.”

This is a very important point. Although the faithful try to claim it is, science is NOT a religion.

This antiquated frame of mind is a hold over from the ignorant middle ages. Where “everything not of the Church is an “opposing Religion” against the Church and to be destroyed”.


91 posted on 08/07/2023 7:01:59 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: RoosterRedux

“He may not realize it, but he is dabbling heavily in the occult.”

Or calling Angels. Funny thing about my experiences. Later I thought about the fact that even though it was kind of creepy that they had made that conscious connection I did not feel threatened by it. Just amazed.


92 posted on 08/07/2023 7:07:47 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Openurmind
Thanks for another cogent reply. I agree that science is not religion, and vice versa.

These days and perhaps being a bit crusty, I use the notion of glasses with colored lenses. Different colored lenses make what is seen seem different by degree. I think this of mental domains and disciplines. One's views to things is very much grounded in "how one sees the world." Weltanschauung, as literally, linguistically the way the world shows itself to you. One can go back and trace this through Kant and into the psychologists, because seeing the world not as it is makes for problems.

The whole "gender identity" is such a problem, stepping aside from the face value of politics. The "world" is wrong, when you deem it wrong. But the world is just the world, and the rest is how it is seen. By us. Individually and collectively, and in what size our "collections" are.

---"Although the faithful try to claim it is, science is NOT a religion."

Indeed. And the inverse as well. Take care. See things as they are -- over a lovely glass of something adult....

93 posted on 08/07/2023 7:18:08 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Openurmind
The thing about being contacted by angels is how do you know they are angels? Perhaps they aren't angels at all but just pretending to be. Perhaps they are demons...or just aliens.

It's a little like getting a phone call from a guy claiming to be a Nigerian prince.;-)

94 posted on 08/07/2023 7:18:11 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: dragnet2
You're right, of course.
"UAP" is a "UFO" with a press agent.
95 posted on 08/07/2023 7:19:18 AM PDT by glennaro (Never give up ... never give in ... never surrender ... and enjoy every minute of doing so.)
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To: Big Red Badger

“In fact I’ve scouted out Heber/Overgaard.”

I know the area well! Worked out of Pine Top quite a few times. A friend of mine who was a Primatologist spent most of his life hunting Bigfoot in those mountains. He swore up and down he had seen them a few times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogollon_Monster


96 posted on 08/07/2023 7:22:37 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Openurmind
As an aside, a lot of people say that during an abduction experience they are strangely unafraid...even calm. Some report that they felt they were being sedated by telepathy (however impossible that sounds).

That said, some people (like Whitley Strieber and Betty and Barney Hill) were so panic-stricken when first abducted that they couldn't move.

Postscript: I am drawing no conclusions from these abduction reports. They may be real or they may be hallucinations of a very realistic and heretofore unknown kind.

97 posted on 08/07/2023 7:27:36 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time
"Although the faithful try to claim it is, science is NOT a religion."

When scientists stop applying the scientific method and let their biases influence their work, the case can be made (semantically) that science (so-called) has become a religion.

Eric Weinstein (former MIT physicist) has made the claim that a lot of what passes as science nowadays, particularly in universities, is nothing but "politics."

Bottom line, when scientists abandon empirical reasoning and the scientific method, their science becomes something other than science.

98 posted on 08/07/2023 7:34:44 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Whatever the alien abductions are—what is most significant is the way that the government and the “limited hangout” folks deal with what is obviously something very important—around the world btw.

They ignore them.


99 posted on 08/07/2023 7:40:53 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: RoosterRedux
Hi, Rooster. I insert a comment again.

You wrote, "The thing about being contacted by angels is how do you know they are angels? Perhaps they aren't angels at all but just pretending to be. Perhaps they are demons...or just aliens."

Interestingly, that is the assertion of Islam that ole Mo got his messages from -- insert noun of choice here -- in a cave. As Wiki blandly states, "Muhammad's first revelation was an event described in Islamic tradition as taking place in 610 CE, during which the Islamic prophet Muhammad was visited by the angel Jibril (Gabriel), who revealed to him the beginnings of what would later become the Qur'an. The event took place in a cave called Hira, located on the mountain Jabal An-Nour near Mecca."

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad%27s_first_revelation

So some argue angel. Other argue demon. Alien might be an interesting supposition. After all Jibrīl is described in some parts of the whole as having six hundred wings. Maybe they were other kinds of alien appendage? But also "in the form of a man with feet astride the horizon." Big alien? Big demon? Big UAF?

100 posted on 08/07/2023 7:44:21 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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