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stroyed, and Joseph Smith was brutally murdered by a hostile mob in Illinois in 1846. Today the Mormon Church has more than 2,500,000 PS | followers. Was Joseph Smith’s strange nocturnal visitor a UFO type of entity? Was some strange psychic force at work there, trying to pass along information about those gold tablets? Consider the prophet Daniel. Like Ezekiel, Daniel reported seeing “wheels as burning fire’? (Daniel 7:9). He describes in some detail his encounters with an entity who came down from a “‘throne”’ in the sky and whose hair was “‘like pure wool.’’ This being was dressed in a white robe with a gold belt and had a luminous face with two bright glowing eyes. He spoke to Daniel in a thundering voice that terrified the earthman. ‘And I Daniel alone saw the vision: For the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a great quaking fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves” (Daniel 10:5-9). ‘‘Yet I heard the voice of his words; and when I heard the voice of his words, then was I in a deep sleep on my face, and my face toward the ground.” Like Joseph Smith, and even like Dana Malley, Daniel apparently passed into some kind of hypnotic trance. Later he was given specific prophecies about contemporary problems, and they came true. In his book A Guest from the Universe, Alexander Kazentsev theo- rized that the angels mentioned in the Bible might actually have been extraterrestrials. British ufologist Brinsley Le Poer Trench, author of The Sky People, supports this notion, as does Paul Misraki in Les Extrater- restres. They all cite the Biblical stories in Genesis in which Lot meets two angels and takes them into his home, where they feasted like ordinary men (Genesis 19:3). The Bible never describes angels as being winged creatures, although artists usually depict them that way. Indeed, the angels seem to have been manlike, though gifted with extraordinary powers. When they appeared before Abraham (Genesis 18:2), they were described as ‘‘three men” who ate and drank with him. Again and again “‘three men” play important roles in Biblical events. ‘Three men’’ repeatedly turn up in modern UFO events, too, and provide still one more puzzling aspect of the problem. Misraki notes that the Church did not accept the spiritual nature of angels until the sixth century A.D. Before that, theologians considered angels to be physical beings. A few years ago the Reverend H. Wipprecht of Cobalt, Canada, stated that “‘the Bible’s description of angels fits 64 / Operation Trojan Horse Angels and Spacemen