The Spaceships Of Ezekiel Fraud

I've blogged before (here and here) about how what the biblical prophet Ezekiel saw was not a UFO or flying saucer. From time to time I get email (or comments here) about how I'm wrong because of the "research" of Joseph Blumrich, a pseudo-scientist who blessed the world in 1974 with his pseudo-scholarship in "The Spaceships of Ezekiel". For some reason I've recently gotten a good bit of such interaction, so I thought I'd add something to my previous posts on Ezekiel's vision.

One of the reasons so many people have (and still do) think Blumrich's book is worth referencing is that he claimed (and so his followers are fond of repeating) that he was a NASA engineer. He wasn't. As Jason Colavito demonstrated a long time ago, documentation exists from the U. S. State Department that shows the State Department could find no evidence that Blumrich was affiliated with NASA. Frankly, it wouldn't matter if Blumrich was an engineer. His ideas are based on desperate and uninformed misreadings of the biblical text anyway. We know what Ezekiel saw because his descriptions mirror ancient Babylonian iconography that we can look at today because of archaeologists. The imagery is no mystery, nor is its meaning.

So, once again, the uncritical thinkers in the ancient astronaut orbit (and I do mean orbit) were duped by a "researcher" that lied to them. You have to wonder how many times this has to happen before some of these folks wake up. The ancient astronaut theory is primarily supported by industrious but duplicitous researchers offering fraudulent research to an emotionally and psychologically primed audience. It's actually pretty sad.

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