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Wellllllllll here’s what I found moderately quickly:

The Baptism of Christ by Aert de Gelder

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Last one I found and bothered with posted first:

Finally one wherein some bits of white could rationally be called a dove because of the Biblical reference; construing it as such:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gelder,_Aert_de_-_The_Baptism_of_Christ_-_c._1710.jpg

However, the ‘bird’part is soooo miniscule compared to the oval ‘craft’ part . . . I find it hard to describe the oval as a “halo.” It seems just as logical to claim that the craft released a dove in the midst of shining a light on the baptism.

I certainly wasn’t there, of course. None of us were. Neither was Gelder. However, there are a fair number of Renaissance paintings with definite UFO type CRAFT in them. Gelder would not be alone nor odd in putting such in that type of painting. It was done a fair amount.

ASSERTS IT’S A UFO:

http://www.uforc.com/religion/AF_moviesUFO-content_p30.html

A very unique—to me fairly preposterous—claim that a craft shaped or with flight characteristics like a dove descended on Christ at Baptism and then literally drove/conveyed Him into the wilderness. Sheesh.

http://www.uforc.com/religion/page1.html