One of the classics is Ezekiel. For someone who had seen nothing more advanced than a chariot (if that), he did a first rate job of describing people using mechanical devices.
There was a great story back in the 60s titled "The Four-Faced Visitors of Ezekiel", wrtten by an engineer (not the later NASA guy). He gave an astounding/eye-opening interpretation of Zeke's "vision". The "creatures" were space-suited men and their four faces were: left side (face of a bull) were antenna (horns) for communication; right side (face of a lion) a respirator; fronts (face of an eagle and face of a man) a man waering a facemask breather).
The "wings" were four blades of a helicopter backpack. Zeke marveled that "when the wings turned, the men turned not" - blades were windmilling. Suddenly "wheels" appeared above the mens' heads (the "wings" disappeared - they are never mentioned the same time as the wheels). Zeke couldn't figure out if the "wheels" pulled the men up into the sky or if the men pushed them up. The mysterious "wheel within a wheel" is one that we've all seen on TV or in the movies or in real life. Remember the movies with the racing stagecoach and the "wheel within a wheel" illusion of the stagecoach's wheels - the same as watching chopper blades in motion?
Of all the interpretations of Zeke's experience, that one seemed the most logical. The hook comes in when trying to figure out who those advanced folks were in those pre-industrial days. Sounds like a violation of the first Star Trek's Prime Directive.
“Of all the interpretations of Zeke’s experience, that one seemed the most logical.”
I had never read about this, thanks.